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Myth: Hard Work And Credentials Determine Employment Opportunities Feb 2016

Myth: Hard Work And Credentials Determine Employment Opportunities

Alev Dudek

"The way one's career develops has little to do with what one went to school for, envisioned, or carefully planned. Careers generally result from coincidence. Regardless of these facts, job seekers are told to endure extensive career testing and planning, or they are asked to create artificial networks that seldom lead to more than frustration. They are given tests that allegedly determine which careers a particular individual would excel in and be a good fit for based on his or her skills and interests, as if the individual would not excel in other careers as much, or as if being …

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Locating Labour Law: Conflicting Perspectives And The Case Of Occupational Health And Safety, Eric Tucker Jul 2014

Locating Labour Law: Conflicting Perspectives And The Case Of Occupational Health And Safety, Eric Tucker

Eric M. Tucker

While the need to locate employment and labour law in its social context is now widely recognized, there is significant disagreement over the character of that social context, how law is located in it, and the way that law both shapes and is shaped by its social location. The importance of these disputes is not just theoretical because their resolution shapes the way labour law is written and implemented. Nowhere is this truer than in one particular area of labour law, occupational health and safety (OHS) regulation. This chapter argues that from its origins in the nineteenth century, OHS regulation …

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Föräldrar I Arbete. En Könskritisk Undersökning Av Småbarnsföräldrars Arbetsrättsliga Ställning (Parents At Work. A Gender-Critical Study On The Position Of Parents Of Young Children In Labour Law) Diss. 448 P., Jenny Julén Votinius Dec 2006

Föräldrar I Arbete. En Könskritisk Undersökning Av Småbarnsföräldrars Arbetsrättsliga Ställning (Parents At Work. A Gender-Critical Study On The Position Of Parents Of Young Children In Labour Law) Diss. 448 P., Jenny Julén Votinius

Jenny Julén Votinius

This dissertation deals with the position of working parents in labour legislation and the protection. The starting point for the thesis is that the rules in labour law concerning employees? parenthood, despite the fairly strongly formulated protection of their rights, in practice have a relatively weak normative position in working life and in labour law. The weakness of the rules on parenthood can be explained as a result of a normative conflict, or incoherence, affecting the judicial sphere, which means that deviating norms and values encroach on the rules about parenthood and weaken their position. The central aim of the …

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