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There are three distinctive groups involved in this tripartite approach to nation building and problem solving, namely - (1) the Government, (2) the Employers' representatives; and this other group.
What is the Trade Union/Employees' Representative/Bargaining Agent?
It is the rendering of personal service in exchange from compensation.
What is employment?
This duty is a continuous and non-delegable duty.
What is the employer's duty of care?
These rights which are believed to belong to everyone are usually protected by the Constitution.
What are human rights?
ADR is widely used as a part of disciplinary and grievance procedure. ADR is the abbreviation for this.
What is alternative dispute resolution?
For national security reasons, the group of employees is exempt from joining a Trade Union.
What is the Police Force?
This comes into being when an offer of employment is made and accepted on terms that are either mutually agreed or stipulated by the putative employer when inviting job applicants to come forward.
What is the contact of employment?
This term refers to taking responsibility for the wrong or answerable under the law.
What is liability?
This term refers to cultural differences or distinctions between groups of people.
What is ethnicity?
The employee is given ____ months to address issues of misconduct after a written warning has been given by the employer.
What is 6 months?
This was enacted across the region to protect workers who were not protected at common law.
What is Legislation?
This agreement was not legally enforceable at common law.
What is the collective agreement?
The ILO's Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) was ratified by Antigua and Barbuda in this year.
What is 2002?
This Act covers unlawful discrimination in employment and related fields and in relation to goods, facilities, services, transport and certain public services. The Act has two main purposes – to harmonize discrimination law, and to strengthen the law to support progress on equality.
What is the Equality Act, 2010 of the U.K.
A situation in which by virtue of lack of customers' orders, retrenchment, the installation of labour saving machinery, an employer’s going out of business, a force majeure, or any other reason, work which a person was last employed to perform has ceased or substantially diminished.
What is Redundancy?
It is the ‘general legal customs and rules which receive their binding power and the force of law by long and immemorial usage over time and universal acceptance throughout the [British Empire]’.
What is the Common Law?
The law distinguishes between two types of employment contracts - the contract of service and the contract for services. To determine which type exists the Court first developed this test which asks the question - whether the worker is under the employer’s control, orders and directions.
What is the control test?
The question when asked in law, is answered this way - "...persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions..."
What is 'who is my neighbour'?
The social attitudes towards disabled people can lead to this syndrome – where people withdraw from the labour market after repeated rejection and lack of opportunities.
What is the 'discouraged worker' syndrome?
This can occur when a business becomes insolvent or wound-up.
What is Collective Dismissal/Redundancy?
This approach “promotes active consultation and cooperation at the industrial and national levels among public authorities as well as workers’ and employers’ organizations in order to foster mutual understanding and good relations and to find agreed solutions to socio-economic problems.”
What is the Social Partnership?
The common law remedy for breach of contract is damages. This category of damages is described as agreed damages or calculable damages based on agreement between the parties.
What are liquidated damages?
These substances are banned from use in any process in a workplace in Antigua and Barbuda by s. D13 of the Labour Code.
What is white and yellow phosphorous?
This term was first coined by Robert Butler in the 1960s and it denotes a process of stereotyping and discrimination against people simply because of their age.
What is ageism?
Where a person is found by the court to have been unfairly dismissed, that person is always entitled to compensation for this type of loss.
What is immediate loss?