employment in which is a part of their employee benefits in accordance to the law for the following reasons: Employee gives birth to a newborn and needs to care for them; Employee fosters or adopts a child; Employee needs to care for an immediate family member such as their parent, their spouse, or their child that has a serious condition and needs constant care; or if an employee has a serious medical condition where a leave is needed ("Encyclopedia Of Everyday Law", 2011). Employees may choose to take this
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Grade: A University of London LLB, 2nd year Tort Law Question Amber Valley Primary School was closed 6 months ago by Amber Borough Council (ABC), the local education authority, which owns all the land and buildings. The school has been standing empty while ABC attempts to find a buyer for the site. Although ABC placed fencing around the site, local residents reported that youths had broken into the site on a number of occasions. Last week a group of youths from a nearby young offenders
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Table of Contents Introduction 2 (3.1) Contrast liability in torts with contractual liability 3 (3.2) Explain the nature of liability in negligence & (3.3) Explain how a business can be vicariously liable 4 (4.1) Apply the elements of the tort of negligence and defences in the above different business situations for the legal officer who is assigned to VJSC & (4.2) Apply the elements of vicarious liability in above different business situations for the legal officer who is assigned
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Ethics in Accountancy Case Analysis Case 2-5: Eating Time 1. Frame the ethical issue: Should Kevin Lowe “eat time” by taking work home and not record the time? 2. Gathering all the facts: * Kevin Lowe is a new staff accountant at Stooges LLP * Kevin took 50% longer to complete audit work than his predecessor. * Stooges LLP is on a fixed budget for these audits. * Bo Chambers and Moe Chambers are partners supervising Kevin. * Bo and Mo explicitly say that they do not
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the state of Ohio to perform road repairs including using dynamite to blast dangerous rock and overhangs. The company closes down the road and proceeds with the dynamiting. The guard hired to make sure no cars enter the area falls asleep while on duty. Jim, who did not see road closure signs drives into the danger zones causing his car to get hit by falling rock and Jim suffers severe injuries from the company's negligence. ISSUE (1) The issue is whether, under Ohio law, will Melissa be liable
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Homework week 4 Risk Management 1. How does OSHA protect health care employees? OSHA protects health care employees by making sure that the employers inform employees of all potential dangers under the right to know policy. OSHA prevents accidents from happening. That is why they are strict and walk around in the work environment to prevent “occupational injury.” 2. What should be included in a waste management plan? All health care organizations, whether a hospital, ambulatory surgery center, or
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of work. The author is using fictions to support the assignment rather than real life incidents, as the author’s workplace did not give out such materials in time for the said author to complete the assignment. The main aims are to discuss the employer/employee responsibilities regarding manual handling and the civil and criminal liabilities involved. Give the reader an understanding of what the relevant legislation breach is surrounding manual handling and its interpretation and application, to
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ideas how to structure your own advert. Some have been copied from the Skills for Care Toolkit and others have been used by personal budget clients in Oxfordshire. Clients/brokers can add colour or pictures to enhance and make an advert eye catching for the public e.g. if putting into a shop window. P/Time Personal Assistant Personal Assistant to assist 27 year old disabled mother of two with daily tasks. Main duties will include cleaning; ironing; assisting on outings like walking the dog; socialising
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“Universal Human Care Hospital” are employees, department managers, and trustees while the external stakeholders are pharmaceutical representatives, patients and corporate partners. The employee duty of loyalty requires the employee to act solely for the benefit of the employer in all matters related to his or her employment. This general principle prohibits an employee from competing with an employer; appropriating the employer’s personal property or soliciting customers away from employer while in the
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Paper February 17, 2013 Karris Moses Prof. Armstrong LEG 500 February 17, 2013 Dr. DoRight has recently been hired as the President of the “Universal Human Care Hospital”, where he oversees all departments with over 5,000 employees and over 20,000 patients at the medical facility. He has been provided with a broad set of duties and oversight of numerous departments, including business development, customer services, human resources, legal, patient advocacy, to name a few. He has managers in
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