Task 1A Regardless of legal form there are certain laws and regulations that all operating businesses within the UK are obliged to follow. So as a start up business in the aspect of catering consideration of the following is recommended; All employers are required to take part in ‘PAYE TAX’ (pay-as-you-earn) this is a system of withholding of income tax from payments to employees. This money will be deducted from employee wages by the employer and then becomes the responsibility of the government
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Assignment 1: Social Media La-Nika Romain Gayles Professor Scott Levassuer Business Law I August 10, 2014 Assignment 1: Social Media In this paper, I will explain how Facebook utilizes the four components of legal astute social media marketing manager who utilizes social media outlets for consumer transactions and how each component can mitigate the risk involved in doing business in cyberspace. I will also list and analyze methods of alternative dispute resolutions and determine which
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Role and Functions of Business Law Tanisha Haynes LAW/421 July 18, 2013 Ms. Lindsey Cole The Role and Functions of Business Law When people hear the word law, one will think of the laws in which people have to abide by on a daily basis. There are several different variations to the laws; there are states laws. Each state has their own rules for their citizens to follow. Then there is the Federal law, which governs the government. According to Melvin, “the term law is defined as a body
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Company Law for Business: Assignment 1 (i): Is the cat contract with Feline Fertility Pty Ltd enforceable? Your answer should include an analysis of the reason put forward by Lassie Ltd for terminating the contract. The area of law relating to this particular question is the Corporations Act 2001 section 124, which mentions the legal capacity and powers of a company, and section 125 (2), which refers to a company's objects within its constitution. As Lassie Ltd is a company, it is a separate
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really liked but could not afford. He decided to steal it. He then went to Jimmy’s Poor-Man’s Bar to meet with a client, John. Jimmy’s wasn’t a client of Coleman’s, but John didn’t like his customers to see him “doing business.” Coleman was talking with Jimmy about business when he spilled his drink all over the bar. That made him think about this cool trick where you put pure grain alcohol in your mouth, blow it out and light it. Coleman took a big drink, took out his lighter, and said, “What
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) * Passed in 2002, this act provides whistleblowers in publicly traded companies with revolutionary new protections if they “make a disclosure to a supervisor, law-enforcement agency, or congressional investigator that could have a ‘material impact’ on the value of a company’s shares.” * Under the law, board committees must set up procedures for hearing whistleblower concerns; executives who retaliate can be held criminally liable and can go to prison for up to 10 years; the
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Business Law - You Decide Case Resolved Question: Coleman works for Software Inc., a Delaware based corporation that sells security equipment to business and bars. Coleman’s duties include traveling to prospective clients and meeting with representatives of the businesses in his sales division. Coleman is on the road more than half the year. He often does not come home for more than a few days at a time. Over the course of his 17 years of employment with Software Inc., Coleman has had several
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citing that the claims are barred by the act of state doctrine. Rules of the Law(s) Applied to the Case The law applied in this case was the act of state doctrine, which states, “local courts may not question the legal effect of a foreign state’s acts fully executed within its own territory” (US Legal, 2013). Therefore, the court dismissed the action against Metropolitan Museum of Art. Analysis: How the Court Applied the Law The United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit applied the act of state
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claim lies within Houston courts and supplier submitting a claim lies with Ankara courts. The English contract says that all decisions shall be settled in Houston and be submitted to the US Foreign corrupt practices act- places limitations on US business people prohibited from making illegal payments to foreign officials under the Foreign corrupt practices act Disaster at Bhopal case, p. 42, this case talks about union carbide it lacked control over the safety and operations on the indian plant
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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to execute certain provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (enacted March 9, 2006) relating to trafficking in contraband cigarettes or smokeless tobacco. The new law amends the Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act by: reducing the threshold amount of cigarettes necessary to trigger jurisdiction under the CCTA from a quantity in excess of 60,000 to a quantity in excess of 10,000; extending the provisions of the CCTA
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