The development of technology has a significant impact and creates new requirements in the field labour-law relations. One these is protection occupational health safety by preventing blurring boundaries between employees’ work private lives. most important means which currently subject discussions professional community, but also practice, right to disconnect. This paper devoted exactly this r...

The Key Indicator Methods (KIM) assess the risk of manual handling of loads on a screening level. Their purpose is the recognition and removal of job design deficits. The risk assessment is carried out in two stages. The first stage is the ordinal scaled description of workload items. The second stage is the evaluation of the degree of probability of physical overload. The intended user populat...

In 2002, Austria has reformed its severance pay legislation. In the new system (Abfertigung Neu) individual savings accounts are managed by so-called employee provision funds (“Mitarbeitervorsorgekassen”). The system is funded by employers via a monthly untaxed payment of 1.53 % of gross wages. Accumulated entitlements rest in the employee’s account until retirement, unless the work contract ha...

The timing and nature of industrialization in Britain and continental Europe had significant consequences for the growth and development of labour market institutions, effects which are still felt today and which are visible in the conceptual structure of labour law and company law in different countries. However, contrary to the claims of the legal origin hypothesis, a liberal model of contrac...

This study estimated the effect of genetic change of live weight (LW) and dry-matter intake capacity (DMIC) on labour income (economic values) in dairy cattle under different production circumstances. Dutch production circumstances in the years 1998 and 2008 were based on different scenarios and varied with respect to product prices, milk output restrictions and environmental legislation. Linea...

AIM To investigate potential differences in sickness absence among public sector employees in Sweden and Denmark, and to what extent a difference was associated with age, gender, physical and psychosocial work environment exposures, lifestyle factors, self-rated health or work ability. METHODS In 2000, two cross-sectional samples of 8562 public sector employees in Sweden and Denmark were surv...

Background Debates around policies regulating e-cigarette use make it important to obtain an overview of current practice, people's attitudes and correlates of policy support. Aims were to assess (i) current practices for e-cigarette use in homes and workplaces; (ii) characteristics associated with allowing e-cigarette use in the home; and (iii) level of, and characteristics associated with, su...

BACKGROUND OECD countries over the past two decades have implemented a range of labour market integration initiatives to improve the employment chances of disabled and chronically ill individuals. This article presents a systematic review and evidence synthesis on effectiveness of government interventions to influence employers' employment practices concerning disabled and chronically ill indiv...

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has, since its founding, worked towards the improvement of the working conditions of all people through various means of action, including the adoption of international labour standards. This paper will briefly discuss ILO's standards concerning occupational safety and health, its specific standards concerning work on board fishing vessels, and its wo...

This study was conducted in Delta State Nigeria to establish a nexus between rural-urban migration and child labour. Random sampling was applied to select rural settlements and this study covers 450 sample farming households. The results show that rural-urban migration influence child labour (P