Legislation

Its legislation is much more complicated than simply removing a checkbox from job applications (Trocko, 2014). Today, there are already several ban the box ordinances, and no two are the same. More specifically, the legislation varies between states, cities, and counties, which adds complexity to the already challenging hiring process. Another negative to implementing ban the box legislation is the amount of time added to the hiring process (Trocko…

CANADA PROMPT PAYMENT ACT UPDATE: SENATE HEARINGS LEAD TO PROPOSED AMENDMENTS In an effort to lead reform in the construction industry, the Canadian Senate introduced prompt payment legislation under Bill S-224, the Canada Prompt Payment Act (the “Bill”) which, if passed, would apply to construction contracts and related subcontracts made with the Federal Government. After passing its second reading last November, the Bill was referred to the Standing Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce…

inequality between the sexes in terms of multiple aspects. In the next chapter I will use feminist jurisprudence and the dominance approach to feminism to evaluate current legislation regarding human trafficking. CHAPTER 3: APPLYING LEGAL FEMINISM TO CURRENT LEGISLATION Legal feminism can be applied to current legislation on human trafficking to analyze the foundation of the laws and their inability…

biting, and vicious attacks. Presently, as a result, laws called Breed-Specific Legislation, or BSL, have been passed imposing strict laws on particular canine breeds. BSL is defined, generally, as the banning, or regulation, of a specific breed of dog that is considered dangerous and a threat to human safety (Abordo, 2010; Bandow, 1996; Burstein, 2004; Hussain, 2006; Pratt, 2004). Intentions of BSL Breed-Specific Legislation is the result of a couple factors that led to the belief that we have…

Unit 17: Minimum Wage Legislation A recent universal survey of the minimum wage fixing by law altering, distributed by the I.L.O., had this to say in regards to the points of the minimum wage fixing by law settling in the numerous nations seeking after such strategies: According to the view of survey ,the assortment of national approaches, the I.L.O. study recognized four parts which the lowest pay permitted by law settling might play in a national arrangement of pay determination. 2 The…

currently any laws on the federal level that address cyberbullying or bullying in general (“Federal laws,” 2014). The issue of cyberbullying is currently being addressed on the state level in our country. In New York, there are a number of pieces of legislation that have been passed, in an attempt to address cyberbullying. These laws identify which categories a person can be targeted based on to be considered a victim of cyberbullying, and they also provide an idea of what kind of terminology…

Unusual Sex Ordinances Across America Laws and ordinances are enacted around the United States for many reasons, most often as a means of ensuring the safety of the general public. While laws pertaining to personal safety are very understandable, others leave us scratching our heads. While we have to abide by these laws, unless we wish to deal with the authorities, there are certain times when laws are blatantly broken and most all of those relate directly to sexual practices. Each state in the…

Health Parity legislation is applied to plans that are sponsored by private and public sector for employers with more than 50 employees working for them. This prohibits plans from applying financial requirements or treatment limitations (Mental). In this legislation, there is a lifetime dollar limit and annual dollar limits for each employee that the employer has. This dollar limit is split between mental health benefits and medical/surgical benefits (Mental). However, this legislation does not…

In the Interest of Public Safety - One of the main arguments on the side for Breed Specific Legislation is that it is for the good of general public safety. “According to the CDC, more than 4.7 million dog-bite incidents occur in the United States every year. Of those 4.7 million attacks, 800,000 of these Americans will seek medical attention.” (Wilson) The numbers sound frighteningly large but what do they really mean? Per the ASPCA, the report the CDC supplied was deemed insufficient to…

As there are inherent flaws with legislation in historical analysis, so too are there issues with these trial reports. The most obvious concern is that we must rely on the competence and impartiality of court registers which at times was questionable. William Norris, the register of the vice-Admiralty court of Jamaica, recorded little defense for John Rackam and his crew, noting their response to the judge’s inquiries was that “they had no Witnesses, That they had never committed any Acts of…