Restrictive Conditions in Employment Agreements

Restrictive covenants in physician employment agreements.

Virtually all physician employment relationships are governed by employment agreements in which the physician and employer exchange promises. When embodied in contracts, promises are also known as "covenants." Certain covenants are restrictive in nature, including, most notably, covenants which prohibit competition ("non-competes"). Legal considerations regarding non-competes in particular cent...

Employment Protection Reform, Enforcement in Collective Agreements and Worker Flows

Differential enforcement of employment protection by explicit design of the legislation, for example through exemptions for small firms, has been exploited in a growing body of research. However, little is known about the effects of differential enforcement that is not defined by the letter of the law, presumably due to the lack of data. Our study incorporates aspects of both types of different...

Long-Term Employment Agreements With In-House Counsel: Employment Security or Ethical Quagmire?

[Employment, work conditions and health].

Work is an essential component of human life. It represents the relationship between human beings and nature, as well as how humans produce goods and shape their social interactions, providing the foundations for economic production reflected in social and political life. Work is also a concept central to an understanding of the way in which society distributes wealth and power and integrates o...

Home Conditions and Employment of Mental Defectives

I am indebted to Dr. I. G. Davies, Medical Officer of Health and Professor of Public Health, University of Leeds, for his permission to publish the following article dealing with facts relating to social conditions of mentally handicapped persons in the City. A recent survey of the occupations and home conditions of mentally defective persons in an industrial area of roughly half a million popu...