Agency employment is where a person is employed as a contract or temporary worker to fill a position in a host company. The agency is the worker’s actual employer and is responsible for payroll and taxes, superannuation, recruitment/dismissal/discipline, workers’ compensation. The host company is responsible for direction of tasks or jobs to be undertaken and determining the work available for the temporary worker on site. Normally there is a joint responsibility in so far as occupational health
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1. Justify your position about the importance of the physician-patient and hospital-patient relationships. The doctor and patient relationship has been and remains a keystone of care. The medium will provide data that is gathered for the society. The data is diagnoses and plans are made. The compliance will be accomplished, and healing, patient activation, and support are provided. It will manage care organizations. The importance rests also on market savvy: satisfaction
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act that is under the civil law category, describe wrongful actions executed against one without an established contract. There are three key zones that are incorporated within the Tort Law and they are as follows: infliction of mental distress, negligence, and intentional torts (Buchbinder and Shanks, 2012). Intentional torts are considered to be defamation of character, battery, invasion of privacy, false imprisonment, and assault. In order for these cases to be effective, one must prove that
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(duty of care) The first element in a claimant’s case negligence is whether the defendant owed him a duty to take reasonable care. Duty of care therefore, exists as a control devise in order to determine who can bring an action for negligence and in what circumstances. When a person suffers loss as a result of negligent conduct, they will want to shift that loss on to the person who caused it though negligence action. When a negligence action is brought to court, the judge will usually be able
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Really Real Television Inc. (RRT) Case Summary Introduction: Really Real Television Inc. (RRT), a corporation producing and selling reality television shows, sometimes end up in legal issues. Stuart McKay, a major producer for RRT, is now facing some serious legal issues during the course of producing a show called Boy Band. The object of the show is to take 20 young candidates with musical talents and eliminate each other until five remained. ISSUE 1: Jimmy, a 16-year-old guitarist, repudiated
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vicarious liability and health and safety implications of his employees (3c) 7 5 Distinguish strict liability from general tortuous liability with reference to Prime Computers (3 d) 10 6 Explain and apply the various elements of the tort of negligence and analyse the practical applications of breach of duty and remoteness in the given situation (4 a, b) 11 7 Conclusion 15 8 Reference 16 Introduction As a legal executive in a firm of solicitors, some clients
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Tort of Negligence A tort can be defined as civil wrong which is not a breach of contract i.e. committed against an individual, it is apparent from this definition that there is a distinction between contract and tort. A tortious liability is not undertaken voluntarily by the courts leaving the defendant or/party no option but to accept. A tort doesn’t arise as a result of a bargain but as a consequence of committing a tort. Contractual liability is usually strict but that arising out of a tort
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The business environment is primarily concerned with economic gains and therefore, pressure is mounted in an organization to increase profitability each year. This is attributed by the work force which is put under intense stress for the organization to grow economically. It ranges from unreasonably high productivity standards and hazardous working environment that make worker to become vulnerable to risk to t heir mental and physical health. The ultimate outcome is unhealthy workforce that is relatively
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BUSINESS LAW: CASE ANALYSIS 1 On October 15, 2003, at approximately 3:00 p.m., the M/V Andrew J. Barberi, en route from Manhattan to Staten Island went off its course and collided at full speed into a concrete maintenance pier just 1800 feet south of the slip at which it was intended to dock. That day the vessel, with a 6000 passenger capacity, was carrying nearly 1500 people. It traveled on a day that was clear but windy, one deemed acceptable for travel. Traveling at a typical
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To: Dr. DDT MEMORANDUM From: Dena Zapata Date: July 15, 2013 Re: Tammy Jones Case Tammy Jones is a 19 year old resident of Tillman County but appears to be at least 21. Tammy owns and uses a fake Oklahoma driver’s license which lists her age as 21. On the night of August 5, 2001, Tammy goes to a local tavern named Cooter’s Brew, a sole proprietorship located in Kiowa County. At Cooter’s Brew, Tammy is ready and willing to present her fake license to the bartender but he never asked for her
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