COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT Collective bargaining is a process of negotiations between employers and a group of employees aimed at reaching agreements that regulate working conditions. The interests of the employees are commonly presented by representatives of a trade union to which the employees belong. The collective agreements reached by these negotiations usually set out wage scales‚ working hours‚ training‚ health and safety‚ overtime‚ grievance mechanisms‚ and rights to participate in
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Chapter Two The White Pigeon Sugar Manufactory By the 1830s‚ the new European practice of extracting sugar identical to cane sugar from beets had captured the minds of separate but like-minded small groups of investors in Pennsylvania‚ Massachusetts‚ and Michigan. The latter group took the name “White Pigeon” after the town in which the company was organized. Experiments that took place in Michigan and Massachusetts led to the construction of factories sized to produce salable white sugar in commercial
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Is the principle of fairness a sound moral principle? Reflection on John Rawls’ theory. The theory of justice as fairness was one of the most important elements of John Rawls’s philosophy‚ the one frequently discussed and significant for the twentieth-century political philosophy. To answer the question stated in the topic I would like to divide my dissertation into two major consecutive parts. First‚ I will examine what the principle of fairness implies and what are‚ in accordance to Rawls‚
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On the stage of philosophy concerning meta-ethics‚ the Moral Error Theory followed in Hume’s footsteps and made significant breakthroughs with J. L. Mackie’s Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong and Richard Joyce’s more recent The Myth of Morality. They both argue that i) moral judgments presuppose objective and categorical moral values and ii) this presupposition is false since there are no such things. Therefore‚ they conclude‚ moral judgments are systematically false. Although Mackie offers an argument
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000 120‚000 Alternative 4 0 30‚000 30‚000 a. Sue Pansky is a risk avoider and should use the maximin decision approach. She should do nothing and not make an investment in Starting Right. b. Ray Cahn should use a coefficient of realism of 0.11. The best decision is to do nothing. c. Lila Battle should eliminate alternative 1 of doing nothing and apply the maximin criterion. The result is to invest in the corporate bonds. d. George Yates should use the equally likely decision
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Utilitarianism is fine if your among the winners justice is better if you are not Utilitarianism is the moral philosophy that the morally right action is that which leads to the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. The term justice means getting what you deserve both good and bad. However there is significant disagreement between justice theorists as to what causes who to deserve what. In this essay I will be discussing John Rawls’ concept of contract justice and Robert Nozick’s
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Current Location MAT540046VA016-1132-001 Quantitative Methods Review Test Submission: Midterm Exam Menu Management Options Expand All Collapse All MAT540046VA016-1132-001 (Quantitative Methods) Course Home Student Center Announcements Email Gradebook Class Introductions Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Review Test Submission: Midterm Exam Content User | | Course | Quantitative Methods | Test | Midterm Exam | Started | 2/9/13 10:35 PM | Submitted
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FedEx versus Djoker: Through the Lens of Game Theory Term Paper | IIMK | PGP 15 Submitted By: Group 13 Ranjith P (PGP/015/041) Ankur Pandit (PGP/015/206) Anurag Butoliya (PGP/015/207) Paran Gupta (PGP/015/240) FedEx versus Djoker: Through the Lens of game Theory Executive Summary: Being inspired by the recent clash between Federer and Djokovic in Wimbledon 2012‚ we as a group decided to explore the game theory dynamics of this celebrated matchup. Both these players
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The relationship between justice and the law is one that has been debated for hundreds‚ if not thousands of years. Many theorists have attempted to explain the exact characteristics of this relationship in order to outline a system of just law. However‚ this relationship is far too intricate for any one theory to dominate the field. The values used to formulate a system of just law are often times based upon personal preference‚ unseen biases‚ or self-motivation. Law is such an intrinsic facet to
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Table of Contents Abstract 3 Part 1 - Literature Review 4 1.1. Equity definitions 4 1.2. Measurements of inequality 4 Part 2 - Situation of Income Inequality in Vietnam in the period from 2000 to 2010 7 2.1. Situation 7 2.1.1. Income distribution among 5 quintiles 7 2.1.2. Income distribution between rural area and urban area 9 2.1.3. Income Distribution among 8 regions of Vietnam: 10 2.1.4. GINI coeffiecent 11 2.2. Consequences – the measurement of “40” 12 Part 3:
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