round the significance of employers’ need for flexibility and employee’s need for work-life balance and whether they can reconcile. It also looks to explicate how Work-life balance and flexibility are regularly‚ though not constantly contrasting within HRM. Lately‚ upward market demands and organizations’ need for global competitiveness have as highlighted by Edward and Wajcman (2005:46) resulted in an increased need for organizations to reorganize and draw from their employees’ an utmost efficiency
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1. An exemption is a clause in a contract that exempts or removes liability from one or both parties in certain circumstances. Exemption clauses are used frequently in business organization contract. These clauses apportion risk between the parties concerned and the law upholds them‚ assuming the parties negotiated them while drafting the contract 2. The two ways in which exemption clauses can be incorporated in a contract are: (1) Incorporation by notice and (2) Incorporation by signature
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Development & Use of Wiretapping in Society Ashton Planz 7/9/2012 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Development of Wiretapping 3 How is it Useful? 4 Where are we headed? 5 Where Do We Stand Now Though? 5 Bibliography 7 Introduction Technology is used for a wide variety of things on today’s society and has changed how we live our lives in many ways. Some technological advances are for the better and some for worse‚ some both. One example is wiretapping‚ a very controversial issue
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Law of Precedent One of the major considerations on how someone is tried in a court of law depends upon the previous convictions of similar cases. This law of precedent (stare decisis) was founded hundreds of years ago as part of our common law. The literal translation of stare decisis is "that like cases be decided alike." Precedents in law play a fundamental role in the judicial processes of Canada. From stealing a loaf of bread ranging to murder in the first degree‚ there are precedents for
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Case: John Watkins v. United States (1957) Facts: John Thomas Watkins‚ a labor worker organizer‚ was asked in 1954 to appear in front of the Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives. He was asked to give further details on the identity and expose the Communist Party member’s activities and he refused. Court ruled that the congress possessed no general authority to expose the private affairs of individuals. Issue: Did the activities by HUAC incorporate an unconstitutional
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number: 3141438 Course: Employment Law Course Code: HRMT322v4 Due date: August 1st‚ 2013 Society is experiencing many conflicts between employers and their employees. Many issues arise due to blurred lines in employment contracts; if responsibilities and expectations are not clearly stated in the contract‚ the employer may face difficulties when or if an incident occurs (also known as implied terms). There is an imbalance of power between the employer and employee‚ however‚ the law does not intend
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Entrepreneurs Professor Gabel and Connell Employers hiring Employees When looking for a job‚ perspective employees need to consider the needs that employers have and the qualities they desire in the workforce for their company.According to the book Start your own business “The employees you hire can make or break your business‚” (author 354). Companies cannot afford to hire the wrong candidate for their business strongly relays on their employees for successful outcome. Companies are now focusing
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PRECEDENT SETTING CASE CLN 4U0 The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens (1884)‚ 14 Q.B.D. 273 Court of Queen’s Bench‚ England Facts: Thomas Dudley‚ Edward Stephens‚ and the deceased‚ a boy between seventeen and eighteen years of age‚ were set adrift in a lifeboat during a storm on the high seas 1000 miles from the nearest land. They had neither food nor water to subsist upon. For twenty days‚ they managed to survive by catching and eating a turtle and drinking rain water caught in their oilskin
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Should Companies Have The Right To Monitor Employees’ E-mails And Phone Conversations? Employees watch out when using communication‚ whether e-mail or phone‚ at work‚ you never know who may be listening. Should companies have the right to monitor employees’ e-mails and phone conversation? Most studies believe that they‚ employers‚ do have the right to monitor the e-mail and phone conversations of their employees‚ as long as they are notified of the fact. There is a tremendous amount of literature
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Executive Summary: Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) regularly fields inquiries regarding the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) from service members employed by the Federal Government and from the Federal Government about a service member employee. A vast majority of these questions relate to the application of certain USERRA requirements at the Federal workplace. To add to the complexity of USERRA’s application in the Federal workplace‚ the Office
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