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Undue Equation Of 'Savings' With 'Compensation For Services': Case Comment, Belachew M. Fikre
Undue Equation Of 'Savings' With 'Compensation For Services': Case Comment, Belachew M. Fikre
Belachew M Fikre
Individual employer-employee relations are regulated by a regime called 'employment law'. Despite the inadequate semantic clarity in our legal system regarding the usage of the words 'employment law' and 'labour law', the latter is 'understood as the regime that governs workers' efforts to advance their own shared interests through self-organisation and collective protest, pressure, negotiation and agreement with employers. Among the numerous benefits accorded to an outgoing employee is severance payment that somehow provides an interim income during transition from one engagement to another. And this form of benefit represents one variety of the 'third wing' within the regime of …
Medicine That Works: The Road Not Taken In Healthcare Reform, Julie C. Suk
Medicine That Works: The Road Not Taken In Healthcare Reform, Julie C. Suk
Julie C Suk
Although the immediate future of healthcare reform remains uncertain, it is clear that significant long-term improvements to American healthcare will require effective methods of controlling healthcare costs that go beyond those currently being proposed. The United States lags behind many European countries in health, spending much more of its GDP on healthcare while posting worse health outcomes, largely due to the increased prevalence of preventable chronic conditions. This article exposes an important but often ignored component of European preventive healthcare: the law of workplace health and safety, which imposes on employers the positive duty to identify and prevent harms to …