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Drowning in Laws
Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Since 1943, the lives of Brazilian working people and their employers have been governed by the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT). Seen as the end of an exclusively repressive approach, the CLT was long hailed as one of the world's most advanced bodies of social legislation. In Drowning in Laws, John...
The Anti-Slavery Project
From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
It is commonly assumed that slavery came to an end in the nineteenth century. While slavery in the Americas officially ended in 1888, millions of slaves remained in bondage across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East well into the first half of the twentieth century. Wherever laws against slavery were...
Rights on Trial
How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Gerry Handley faced years of blatant race-based harassment before he filed a complaint against his employer: racist jokes, signs reading “KKK” in his work area, and even questions from coworkers as to whether he had sex with his daughter as slaves supposedly did. He had an unusually strong case,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Indirect discrimination (or disparate impact) concerns the application of the same rule to everyone, even though that rule significantly disadvantages one particular group in society. Ever since its recognition by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1971, liberal democracies around the world...
Der sozialrechtliche Schutz von Rentnern im europaeischen Sekundaerrecht
Rechtliche Analyse des Schutzumfangs des nichterwerbstaetigen Rentners und des Rentners im Nebenerwerb in Bezug auf Altersdiskriminierung, Freizuegigkeit, Soziale Sicherheit und soziale Verguenstigungen im europaeischen Sekundaerrecht
Language: German
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Die mobilen Rentner A und B sind Unionsbürger. Rentner A möchte in einen sonnigen Unionsmitgliedstaat ziehen und in völliger Ruhe und Zufriedenheit seinen wohlverdienten Ruhestand genießen – er ist dementsprechend nichterwerbstätiger Rentner. Rentner B nimmt noch aktiv am Arbeitsleben teil,...
Codice del lavoro e leggi complementari
Edizione 2016 Collana Vigenti
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 21, 2016
L’Opera è aggiornata con: - il D.L.vo 24 settembre 2016, n. 185, Decreto correttivo del Jobs act; - il D.L.vo 1 agosto 2016, n. 159, nuove norme sulla sicurezza del lavoro; - il DDL approvato definitivamente dal Parlamento il 18 ottobre 2016, in materia di contrasto del caporalato. Argomenti affrontati:...
Compendio di diritto del lavoro
2019 Seconda edizione I Collana Compendi Tribuna
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 16, 2019
La nuova Collana Compendi Tribuna si rivolge ai candidati ai concorsi pubblici, agli studenti universitari e a tutti coloro i quali siano chiamati a sostenere prove d’esame per l’abilitazione professionale, con particolare riguardo per l’esame orale di avvocato. I Compendi Tribuna si caratterizzano...
by AA.VV.
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Formato e-book (epub e mobi) sempre a portata di mano, visualizzabile su qualsiasi dispositivo mobile, iPhone, iPad, Android Samsung e su desktop. Contiene tutta la normativa italiana in materia di diritto del lavoro. L'opera è una corposa raccolta di articoli e leggi, catalogati uno ad...
Reinventing Mutual Recognition Arrangements
Lessons from International Experiences and Insights for the ASEAN Region
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Governments and nonstate actors around the world have signed mutual recognition arrangements (MRAs), but while most of them share the goals of streamlining the recognition of foreign workers' qualifications and boosting labor mobility, the MRAs vary considerably. Implementation challenges faced in...
Progressive Lawyers under Siege
Moral Panic during the McCarthy Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
This is a study of a progressive law firm and its three partners. The firm was founded in 1936 and existed until the death of one partner in 1965. The partners were harassed by the FBI primarily for defending labor union members and leaders and the defense of both. The firm’s primary client was...
Discrimination Laundering
The Rise of Organizational Innocence and the Crisis of Equal Opportunity Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
While discrimination in the workplace is often perceived to be undertaken at the hands of individual or 'rogue' employees acting against the better interest of their employers, the truth is often the opposite: organizations are inciting discrimination through the work environments that they create....
Labor Disorders in Neoliberal Italy
Mobbing, Well-Being, and the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Psychological harassment at work, or "mobbing," has become a significant public policy issue in Italy and elsewhere in Europe. Mobbing has given rise to specialized counseling clinics, a new field of professional expertise, and new labor laws. For Noelle J. Molé, mobbing is a manifestation of Italy’s...
by Lucy Vickers
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book considers the extent to which religious interests are protected at work, with particular reference to the protection against religious discrimination provided by the Equality Act 2010. It establishes a principled basis for determining the proper scope of religious freedom at work, and considers...
Age Discrimination and Diversity
Multiple Discrimination from an Age Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
This volume of essays is concerned with the discrimination against older people that results from a failure to recognise their diversity. By considering the unique combinations of discrimination that arise from the interrelationship of age and gender, pensions, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socio-economic...