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An Act to require employers to insure against their liability for personal injury to their employees; and for purposes connected with the matter aforesaid. The Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969 (c 57) is a UK act of Parliament which requires that employers carry insurance against the personal injury of their employees.
The average income was £30,472, and the average working week was 36 hours. [1] United Kingdom labour law regulates the relations between workers, employers and trade unions. [2] People at work in the UK have a minimum set of employment rights, [3] from Acts of Parliament, Regulations, common law and equity.
t. e. Vicarious liability in English law is a doctrine of English tort law that imposes strict liability on employers for the wrongdoings of their employees. Generally, an employer will be held liable for any tort committed while an employee is conducting their duties. [1] This liability has expanded in recent years following the decision in ...
English tort law. English tort law concerns the compensation for harm to people's rights to health and safety, a clean environment, property, their economic interests, or their reputations. A "tort" is a wrong in civil law, [1] rather than criminal law, that usually requires a payment of money to make up for damage that is caused.
The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (c. 40) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. On introducing the Bill's second reading in the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, said, "The aim of this Bill is to protect the victims of harassment. It will protect all such victims whatever the source of the ...
The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (c. 37) (abbreviated to "HSWA 1974", "HASWA" or "HASAWA") is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that as of 2011 defines the fundamental structure and authority for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare within the United Kingdom .
e. Vicarious liability is a form of a strict, secondary liability that arises under the common law doctrine of agency, respondeat superior, the responsibility of the superior for the acts of their subordinate or, in a broader sense, the responsibility of any third party that had the "right, ability or duty to control" the activities of a violator.
The text of the bill was incorporated into H.R. 3355, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which was eventually signed by President Bill Clinton as part of Public Law 103–322 on September 13, 1994. The statute's constitutionality was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court against a Tenth Amendment challenge in Reno v. Condon.