In many countries, labor courts play a central role in the determination of firing costs by monitoring and supervising the procedures for dismissals, and, eventually, deciding severance payments mandated by the employment protection legislation (EPL). To get some insights about the impact of...

Employment tribunals or labor courts are responsible for enforcing employment protection legislation and adjudicating rights-based disputes between employers and employees. Claim numbers are high and, in Great Britain, have been rising, affecting both administrative costs and economic...

Paper [I] adds to the theoretical literature on the incentives of Temporary Work Agencies (TWAs). Using a principal-agent model with hidden action to model two main types of contracts between a TWA and a Client Firm (CF), the TWA is shown to potentially act against the best interest of the CF...

This paper presents a model of litigation in the context of a labor contract. The main objective of our analysis is to determine whether and under which conditions it is efficient that the judiciary arbiters a labor conflict and how the judge's decision should be made in order to be optimal. We...

The decision making of judges is prone to error and misapprehension. Consequently, the prevailing literature ties the economic function of courts to dispute resolution and minimization of rule making costs. In contrast to previous research, this analysis applies a contract theoretic perspective...

Seit Bestehen des Kuendigungsschutzgesetzes wird in Politik, Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft ueber seine potenziellen Auswirkungen auf den Arbeitsmarkt und die Beschaeftigung diskutiert. Das Kernstueck und zugleich den zentralen Streitpunkt bei einer Vielzahl betriebsbedingter Kuendigungen bilden...

The Brussels Ia Regulation leaves businesses no feasible option for a choice of jurisdiction in cross-border B2C contracts. The recent judgment by the European Court of Justice in the Ryanair case confirms that the Court will not tolerate any attempts to circumvent the regulatory aim of...

In light of the ubiquity of international commercial arbitration worldwide, most domestic jurisdictions strive to create consistency and uniformity in the interpretation and application of its fundamental principles. But what happens when such principles seemingly collide with a domestic...

Romanian Abstract: Articolul prezintă opiniile jurisprudenţiale diferite, ilustrate cu extrase din hotărâri judecătoreşti, referitoare la modul de stabilire a cuantumului veniturilor obţinute din activităţi remunerate de beneficiarii anumitor categorii de pensii în scopul verificării...