In the article there are discussed the essential characteristics and specificity of the contracts of employment connected with the professional qualification of the workers and employees, being a new legislative decision introduced with the changes in the Labour Code in 2014. There is analyzed...

This paper reconstructs the evolutionary path of the contract of employmentin English law. It demonstrates that the contract of employment is a more recent innovation than widely thought, and that its essential features owe as much to legislation as they do to the common law of contract. The...

In this paper, the nature of the contract of employment is explored from an ethical point of view. It is argued that certain normative arguments should be taken into account in order to justify such a contract. Furthermore, an argument is developed against the claim that (a) the...

This paper reports findings from a survey designed to estimate the numbers excluded from employment protection in the UK by the ‘employee’ test and to examine, through qualitative research, perceptions of the process of employment contracting. The survey evidence shows that approaching one...

The review outlines a simple analytical model to explain the unemployment puzzle, especially the U-curve phenomenon. It analyzes the central institutional imperfections that characterize the existing Mauritian labor market and suggests possible reforms. It also reviews the IMF’s...

The Concept of Workers Rights and Management prerogatives would continue to remain in the front burner until serious and equitable attention is paid to it by all the actors in industrial relations. This paper, appraised workers rights in Nigerian organizations post 1999 and argues that the...

The main topic of the article is an important but little studied issue in Bulgarian Labour Law –the boundaries and the interaction between the employment relationship and the private life of the worker or the employee.This article illustrates the development of the system of laws that...

"Der Beitrag zeigt, wie eine ökonomische Theorie der Fehlzeiten entwickelt werden könnte. Zunächst werden Fehlzeiten als Phänomen des Arbeitsangebots behandelt. Erörtert werden dabei die Struktur des Arbeitskräftepools, aus dem die Betriebe ihre Beschäftigten rekrutieren, die Gestaltung...

Befristete Arbeitsverhältnisse waren schon öfter Gegenstand arbeitsrechtlicher Abhandlungen. Nicht untersucht wurde jedoch bisher die Verbreitung dieser Verträge. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag soll deshalb ein Bereich näher behandelt werden, in dem vergleichsweise genaue Zahlen über die...

Der Beitrag plädiert für die Verwendung der ökonomischen Analyse als Methode der Rechtsvergleichung. Mit ihrer Hilfe wird gezeigt, daß das Vorurteil unbegründet ist, der Kündigungsschutz sei in den USA ?schwächer? (arbeitgeberfreundlicher) als in Deutschland. Die erwartete...