Temporary work is an employment situation useful and suitable in all occasions in which business needs to adjust more easily and quickly to workload fluctuations or maintain staffing flexibility. Temporary workers play therefore an important role in many companies, but this kind of activity is subject to a special form of legal protections and many aspects and risks must be taken into account b...

A standard justification of democratic voting is that it is a fair procedure, providing for the equal treatment of voters. Democratic theorist David Estlund challenges the adequacy of that justification: flipping a coin between alternatives is also a fair procedure, but no one would propose substituting random draw for voting. Estlund provides several arguments that fair proceduralism is an unt...

1. The following four books are all reviewed together by William Gasarch. Fair Division: From Cake Cutting to Dispute Resolution) , by Brams and Taylor, Cake Cutting: Be Fair if You Can by Robertson and Webb, The Win-Win Solution by Brams and Taylor, and Fair Allocation (Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, Vol 33) Edited by H. Peyton Young. These books all deal with the problem of f...

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2010: 36(4) Introduction Litigation can be seen as a reflection of medical error and harm to patients. Studying litigation may reveal trends from which lessons can be learned, leading to improvements in patient safety.1 The threat of litigation may be of some value in increasing investment in safety.2 An alternative to costly litigation is a no-fault compens...

Evaluation of students is an integral part of teaching and instruction. Evaluations take on added dimensions when students are enrolled in healthcare training programs, such as nurse anesthesia. Not only must students master a body of knowledge, but they also must be able to integrate, process, and apply this knowledge appropriately in a clinical setting on a human patient. Thus, societal and l...

This paper will consider whether extending the notion of social citizenship to include legal citizenship offers the possibility of developing a gender-neutral and -inclusive conception of citizenship. The notion of legal citizenship encapsulates the view that all people are equal before the law and have a right to access to justice. Legal citizenship extends the idea of social citizenship, firs...

The appraisal system as a means of disciplinary or termination decisions support is a common target of legal disputes by employees involving charges of unfairness and bias. Since labor and employment laws do not mandate performance appraisals, the latter have become one of the most critical tools of risk management that subject an employer to various liabilities. The study provides comparative ...