There were many things I learned in this class from week one to week seven. In week one‚ I learned the concept of a social contract between the government and the people. It deals with the agreement made by both parties to regulate society. Under this contract‚ members of society agree to give up certain natural rights in exchange for security‚ comforts and order. The government is entrusted with creating an effective system for regulating conduct that are in the best interest of the people and creating
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Employee Resourcing – The Psychological Contract How can we define the psychological contract? Is it the set of mutual obligations/expectations and more often than not aspirations between employer and employee that extend beyond the formal‚ written contract of employment? This is the general consensus with modern scholars and workers alike‚ but just how far is this assertion true? The problem is trying to evaluate what the psychological contract actually is and what it stands for in our
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Labour law also known as employment law deals with the body of laws‚ administrative rulings and precedents which addresses the legal rights of and restrictions on working people and their organizations1. The direct function of labour law is that it deals with the rules governing employment relationship. Labour law functions through the role accorded by common law‚ legislation and is helped also by the extra legal sources such as the customs and collective bargaining. Labour law is divided in to two
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CIPD Factsheet The psychological contract Revised July 2011 ------------------------------------------------- What is the psychological contract? The term ’psychological contract ’ was first used in the early 1960s but became more popular following the economic downturn in the early 1990s. It has been defined as ’…the perceptions of the two parties‚ employee and employer‚ of what their mutual obligations are towards each other ’1. These obligations will often be informal and imprecise:
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and consent by the other so to act”. A party who employs another person to act in his behalf and subject is called a Principal. A party who agrees to act on behalf of another is called an Agent. Agency is governed by a large body of common law known as agency law. Eg: A real estate broker who is employed to sell a house. 2. What are the duties of a Principal to its Agent? A Principal owes following duties to its agent: * Duty to compensate: A principal owes a duty to compensate an agent
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04-Feb-0 Contract of Employment: Civil code has ~3300 articles‚ contains all civil/general laws of Quebec. Contract[1] of Employment is a portion of the code. [2085] “what it’s all about.” An employee: Contractor: No direction and control‚[2] contractor sets his own daily schedule‚ vacation schedule‚ provides his own tools (e.g. computer)‚ is able to subcontract work. o e.g. lawyer: is hired as an agent/agency‚ does not direct/control • Important to specify between the
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Walker claimed compensation from his employer‚ claiming that they were in breach of their common-law duty of care to provide a safe working environment. He was successful in his claim on the grounds that his employer had been made aware that he was under extreme pressure at work‚ witness the initial nervous breakdown. COMPETENT STAFF Smith v Crossley Bros (1951) Current Law Year Book (1947-51) 6831 The plaintiff‚ an apprentice employed in the defendants’ apprentice training
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CONSTRUCTION PROCUREMENT BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINE #C2 Construction Industry Development Board Pretoria Tel: 012 343 7136 or 012 481 9030 Fax: 012 343 7153 E-mail: cidb@cidb.org.za 1. Choosing an appropriate form of contract for engineering and construction works September 2005 Second edition of CIDB document 1010 Background The Green Paper on Creating an Enabling Environment for Reconstruction‚ Growth and Development in the Construction Industry has a vision for a construction
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In The Racial Contract‚ it is argued that contemporary structures of white domination in the United States operate by means of an epistemology of ignorance for white people. White people inadvertently suffer from cognitive dysfunctions such that they cannot understand the racially (and racistly) structured world in which they live and‚ indeed‚ helped create. For Mills‚ while no person of any race is self-transparent‚ becoming a white person entails a particularly extreme form of self-opacity regarding
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Scenario One The issue between Brian and Amy is if there was an enforceable contract and if after Brian verbally offered to sell the car for $10‚500‚ was Amy’s response was a mere inquiry or a counter-offer? While Amy and Brian were negotiating terms a contract was not in place. As per Hyde v Wrench (1840)‚ a counter-offer does not amount to acceptance but is a rejection of the original offer‚ which then lapses. However‚ a mere inquiry is not an acceptance or a rejection‚ therefore the option
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