not produce the greatest possible balance of cost-benefit calculation for everyone affected. According to the Kant’s categorical imperatives, Ford should not place a monetary value on a human life. Based on W.D.Ross’s 7 basic Prima Facie Duties, Ford failed to apply the duties of nonmalefience because they did not produce safe cars. Lastly, Ford is unethical when applying the ethic of caring. Ford not only produced dangerous products, they also hide the truth of the defective Pinto from the customers
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idea of the duty of care. At the first sight, the circumstances may seem as an everyday occurrence: two women ordering a bottle of ginger beer in the café to find that it was served with a snail inside. However, it proved that there may be
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CHAPTER 6 - Right to Self-Organization Coverage 1. All government employees, including those in government-owned or controlled corporations with original charters; 2. Excluded a. Members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, including police officers, policemen, firemen and jail guards. b. High-Level Employees Protection of the Right to Organize. 1. Government employees shall not be discriminated against in respect of their employment by reason of their membership
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MCCORMACK v. SAFEWAY STORES INCORPORATED In 2011 a Safeway female employee was sexually assaulted by a presumed supervisor while at work. 1. Facts of the Case On March 3, 2011, Samantha Stabenchek was sexually assaulted by Jose Lopez. During their on shift working hours, Lopez cornered Stabenchek making sexual advances and grabbing her inappropriately. Samantha was extremely shy and quite, she felt uncomfortable reporting the incident herself. Mary McCormack, mother of Stabenchek, reported the
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CHAPTER 8 WHISTLEBLOWING AND EMPLOYEE LOYALTY* Three Mile Island. In early 1983, almost four years after the near meltdown at Unit 2, two officials in the Site Operations Office of General Public Utilities reported a reckless company effort to clean up the contaminated reactor. Under threat of physical retaliation from superiors, the GPU insiders released evidence alleging that the company had rushed the TMI cleanup without testing key maintenance systems. Since then, the Three Mile Island
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this new schedule at the beginning of the year. There is no proof of discrimination of race, color, religion, sex or national origin because entire production staff was changed to four 12-hour shifts on a rotating schedule. 3 b. “Prima facie evidences in cases of religious discrimination usually include, first, the plaintiff
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perform is one that will cause consequences X or Y to come about, then utilizing the principle of utility we must assess how likely action A or B will be participating to the consequence. Prima facie obligations are conditional more duties and a persons obligations to fulfil that moral duty depending on the situation at hand, e.g. if a fathers daughter was in a life threatening situation alongside another man who has the cure to cancer, he can only save one person, the moral decision the
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SALE OF GOODS ACT,1930 CHAPTER I: PRELIMINARY 1. Short title, extent and commencement (1) This Act may be called the 1[***] Sale of Goods Act, 1930. 2[(2) It extends to the whole of India 3[except the State of Jammu and Kashmir].] (3) It shall come into force on the lst day of July, 1930. 2. Definitions In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject of context,- (1) "buyer" means a person who buys or agrees to buy goods; (2) "delivery" means voluntary transfer of possession
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Fordham Law Review Volume 55 | Issue 6 Article 5 1-1-1987 Constructive Discharge Under the ADEA: An Argument for the Intent Standard Ira M. Saxe Recommended Citation Ira M. Saxe, Constructive Discharge Under the ADEA: An Argument for the Intent Standard, 55 Fordham L. Rev. 963 (1987), http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol55/iss6/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by The Fordham Law School Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Fordham
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[1986] 1 MLJ 512 PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v PARAM CUMARASWAMY OCJ KUALA LUMPUR CHAN J FEDERAL TERRITORY CRIMINAL TRIAL NO 39 OF 1985 3 January 1986 Criminal Law and Procedure -- Charge of sedition -- Close of prosecution case -- Whether prima facie case made out -- Sedition Act, 1948, ss. 3(1) & 4(1) -- Criminal Procedure Code (F.M.S. Cap. 6), s. 180 -- Federal Constitution, art. 10 1986 1 MLJ 512 at 513 In this case the respondent was charged with uttering seditious words, an offence
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