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La presente obra busca desentrañar las carencias del sistema de inspección del trabajo en el Perú, de cara a convertirse en un sistema de garantía de derechos.
La óptica es principalmente normativa, lo que quiere decir que se busca interpelar aquellas normas jurídicas que regulan a la inspección del trabajo y a la Superintendencia Nacional de Fiscalización Laboral (SUNAFIL), a fin de analizar su idoneidad para crear un sistema potente y fuerte.
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El artículo 12 del Texto Único Ordenado del Decreto Legislativo N°728, Ley de Productividad y Competitividad Laboral, aprobado por el Decreto Supremo N°003-97-TR, regula los supuestos de suspensión del contrato de trabajo o suspensión de labores, entre los que se encuentra aquel originado por caso fortuito y fuerza mayor.
A fin de poder de contextualizar el uso de este último, el primer capítulo del libro presenta un análisis teórico de...
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Every year, over a hundred thousand workers bring claims to an Employment Tribunal. The settling of disputes between employers and unions has been exchanged by many for individual litigation.
In Struck Out, barrister David Renton gives a practical and critical guide to the system. In doing so he punctures a number of media myths about the Tribunals. Far from bringing flimsy cases, two-thirds of claimants succeed at the hearing. And rather than...
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The Job Search: How to Find the Perfect Job and Land the Interview is the essential guide for anyone looking for a new job. This book covers everything you need to know to find and land your dream job, from writing a resume and cover letter to acing the interview.The book begins by helping you identify your ideal job and target companies. It then shows you how to write a resume and cover letter that will make you stand out from the competition. The...
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Unionizing the Ivory Tower chronicles how a thousand low-paid custodians, cooks, and gardeners succeeded in organizing a union at Cornell University. Al Davidoff, the Cornell student leader who became a custodian and the union's first president, tells the extraordinary story of these ordinary workers with passion, sensitivity, and wit.
His memoir reveals how they took on the dominant power in the community, built a strong organization, and waged...
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This report analyzes how to untangle and simplify the complex product-specific rules of origin (PSRO) in free trade agreements in Asia and the Pacific and explores how technology can cut red tape and reduce inefficiencies impacting trade. It compares the leniency and stringency of PSROs under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in terms of manufacturing requirements with those contained in ASEAN+1 free trade agreements. Assessing...
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Lorsque l'entreprise envisage un projet de restructuration, que ce soit une réorganisation, un transfert d'activité et de salariés, un licenciement économique collectif, un accord RCC ou un APC, l'employeur doit y associer le CSE et les organisations syndicales présentes.
Les différentes procédures de consultation du CSE et les négociations collectives doivent suivre des conditions précises, conçues afin de préserver et de concilier l'intérêt...
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"Slavery and Servitude in New Jersey...by Mr. Alfred M. Heston...contains copious notes concerning slaves and redemptioners...the result of original research." -NY Times, May 16, 1903
"Hon. Alfred M. Heston, Comptroller of Atlantic City, who is author of...'Slavery and Servitude in New Jersey'...stated...50,000 convicts deported...to the American Colonies...became slaves for the most part." -The Daily Standard (Red Bank, New Jersey), Nov. 8, 1902
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10) From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
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The authors have added a wealth of fresh analysis of labor's role in American life, with new material on sex workers, disability issues, labor's relation to the global justice movement and the immigrants' rights movement, the 2005 split in the AFL-CIO and the movement civil wars that followed, and the crucial emergence of worker centers and their relationships to unions. With two entirely new chapters-one on global developments such as offshoring...
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A factory worker is fired because her boss disagrees with her political bumper sticker. A stockbroker feels pressure to resign from an employer who disapproves of his off-hours political advocacy. A flight attendant is grounded because her airline doesn't like what she's writing in her personal blog. Is it legal to fire people for speech that makes employers uncomfortable, even if the content has little or nothing to do with their job or workplace?...
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'Jane Holgate is a brilliant thinker' - Jane McAlevey
In Arise, Jane Holgate argues that unions must revisit their understanding of power in order to regain influence and confront capital. Drawing on two decades of research and organising experience, Holgate examines the structural inertia of today's unions from a range of perspectives: from strategic choice, leadership and union democracy to politics, tactics and the agency afforded to rank-and-file...
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c2000
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From the Publisher: The best step-by-step guide to starting a business available! Many people dream of running a business of their own-but often don't know how to start. Sound familiar? This book can help. User-friendly and loaded with tips, The Small Business Start-Up Kit shows you how to launch a business quickly, easily and with confidence. It explains in plain English how to: choose the best business structure; write an effective business plan;...
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Higher education is the site of an ongoing conflict. At the heart of this struggle are the precariously employed faculty 'contingents' who work without basic job security, living wages or benefits. Yet they have the incentive and, if organized, the power to shape the future of higher education.
Power Despite Precarity is part history, part handbook and a wholly indispensable resource in this fight. Joe Berry and Helena Worthen outline the four...
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In 2009, cabin crew in the BASSA union embarked on a historic, two-year battle against British Airways which was seeking to impose reduced crew levels and to transform working conditions. In the face of employer hostility, legal obstruction, government opposition and adverse media coverage, this workforce, diverse in terms of gender, sexuality, race and nationality undertook determined resistance against this offensive. Notably, their action included...
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Critical and iconoclastic, Comrade or Brother? traces the history of the British Labour Movement from its beginnings at the onset of industrialisation through its development within a capitalist society, up to the end of the twentieth-century.
Written by a leading activist in the labour movement, the book redresses the balance in much labour history writing. It examines the place of women and the influence of racism and sexism as well as providing...
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Capitalism is a dynamic system, continually adapting itself to exploit workers in new ways. In Britain today, the gig economy is its newest form, expressed through precarious contracts and the supposed atomisation of workers. In this book, Jane Hardy argues that despite capitalism's best efforts to stop us, we can always find ways to fight it.
Through a range of case studies, from cleaners to university lecturers, Hardy looks at how workers are...
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"From corsets to crime fighting , Mae Foley challenged the patriarchal status quo by not only juggling family life, but also by forming the first female auxiliary police force in the City That Never Sleeps. After the 19th Amendment passed in 1920, Foley galvanized 2,000 women to join her "Masher Squad" and eventually became one of the first sworn officers with the NYPD. The "Masher Squad" brought down robbers and rapists, investigated the notorious...
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