LABOR LAW UPDATE: TIME REQUIREMENT OR URGENT NECESSITY

Necessity, Importance, and the Nature of Law

J. Ferrer Beltrán et al. (eds.), Neutrality and Theory of Law, Law and Philosophy Library 106, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6067-7_2, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 It is a commonplace among scholars of general jurisprudence that a central goal—perhaps the central goal, or perhaps even the only goal—of general jurisprudence is to use the tools of philosophical analysis as a way of h...

Update Semantics for Weak Necessity Modals

Thispaper develops anupdate semantics forweaknecessitymodals (‘ought’, ‘should’). The central idea, defended in greater detail elsewhere (Silk 2012b), is that weak necessity modals suspend the assumption that the necessity of the modal’s prejacent is verified in the evaluation world. Weak necessity modals afford a means of entertaining and planning for hypothetical extensions of the current con...

Labor Law and Its Reform

Selected Labor & Employment Law Updates

Court holds that warehouse employees who were not guaranteed fixed hours or schedules and could bid for regular jobs as they became available were not "casual employees" as defined by the collective bargaining agreement (CBA), and the employer thus was required to contribute to fund on their behalf Even if the employer treated the employees as casual employees, such practice could not contraven...

Essential charity law update.

A number of significant developments in the Canadian charitable sector took place in the regulatory and case law areas both federally and provincially. These changes will affect the manner in which charities operate. This issue of Health Law in Canada and the issue that will follow in February 2013 focus on some of the more important changes that will impact hospitals, foundations, and other ch...