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516 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Manage employees effectively while avoiding legal trouble. If you supervise employees or independent contractors, The Manager's Legal Handbook is the perfect resource. Need information about overtime? Want useful ideas on workplace policies? Have a question about trade secrets and need the answer now? This book provides everything you need to stay within the bounds of the law, including information: hiring, discrimination and harassment, wages and...
62) Dark signal
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Kate Fox novel volume 2
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300 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Who would want to kill Chad Mills? Kate finds that he made a few enemies as president of the railroad workers union. Meanwhile his widow is behaving oddly. And why was his neighbor Josh Stevens at the Mills house on the night of the accident? While her loud and meddling family conspires to help Kate past her divorce, State Patrol Officer Trey closes in on Josh Stevens as the suspect. Kate doesn't believe it. She may not have the experience, but she's...
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Peter Cappelli confronts the myth of the skills gap and provides an actionable path forward to put people back to work. Even in a time of perilously high unemployment, companies contend that they cannot find the employees they need. Pointing to a skills gap, employers argue applicants are simply not qualified; schools aren't preparing students for jobs; the government isn't letting in enough high-skill immigrants; and even when the match is right,...
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252 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
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In our current political climate, people are looking for answers - and alternatives. The promise of unions is that their 'members be unlimited': that they don't belong to the rich, the powerful, or special interests, but to all workers. How did the idea of unionism arise? Where has it flourished? And what are its challenges in the 21st century? From Britain to Bangladesh, from the first union of the 18th century to today, from solidarity in Walmart...
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374 pages : map ; 24 cm
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When the dead body of a young woman is found on the grounds of Belle Vie, the estate's manager, Caren Gray, launches her own investigation into Belle Vie's history, which leads her to a centuries old mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters--and her own past.
67) Charcoal boys
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 28 cm
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While making a mud house for her hornet egg, a wasp follows a human child throughout his day as he works in a Brazilian charcoal mine.
68) Bearmouth
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251 pages ; 24 cm
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Life in Bearmouth is one of hard labor and isolation, the sunlit world far above the mine a distant memory. Newt has lived in the mine since the age of four, and accepts everything from the harsh working conditions to the brutality of the mine's leaders--until the mysterious Devlin arrives and dares to ask the question, "Why?" As tensions rise, Newt is soon looking at Bearmouth with a fresh perspective--challenging the system and setting in motion...
69) Road of bones
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230 pages ; 25 cm
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"Christopher Golden's Road of Bones is a stunning supernatural thriller set in Siberia, where a film crew is covering an elusive ghost story about a highway built on top of the bones of prisoners of Stalin's gulag. Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1200 mile stretch of Siberian road where winter temperatures can drop as low as sixty degrees below zero. Under Stalin, at least eighty Soviet gulags were built along the route...
70) The vaster wilds
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"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...
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El mundo de las relaciones laborales es cada vez más complejo, y el derecho laboral, en tanto busca regular los posibles conflictos que se dan entre los trabajadores y sus empleadores, debe mantenerse a la par.
El fenómeno de la convencionalización del derecho en el ámbito del sistema interamericano de derechos humanos ha abordado también el tema de los derechos laborales, cada vez con mayor intensidad.
Así, la presente obra aborda, por un lado,...
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The decline in private sector unions in America is well documented, but some unions have bucked this trend, most notably the 2.1 million member Service Employees International Union. Its former president liked to say: "We use the power of persuasion first. If it doesn't work, we try the persuasion of power." The targets of SEIU's corporate campaigns find themselves on the defensive and, tied to traditional public responses, are often flummoxed by...
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When Wisconsin governor Scott Walker threatened the collective bargaining rights of the state's public sector employees in early 2011, the massive protests that erupted inresponse put the labor movement back on the nation's front pages. It was a fleeting reminder of a not-so-distant past when the "labor question"-and the power of organized labor-was part and parcel of a century-long struggle for justice and equality in America. Now, on the heels of...
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This is a great guidebook for anyone who wants to become a waiter, or for waiters who aspire to move up in the industry. Covers basic aspects of table service, the types of service offered in fine dining venues, best practices for formal dining occasions, and much more. There is an additional section that covers the basics of bartending and mixed drinks. The author has many years of experience as a waiter in the hotel and restaurant industry.
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Español
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La presente obra tiene el propósito de servir como un manual o texto de enseñanza de la asignatura de Derecho Laboral General, abordándose el estudio de cinco aspectos claves (divididos en nueve temas) de esta disciplina: surgimiento, evolución y consolidación del derecho del trabajo; ámbito de aplicación del derecho del trabajo: sujeto laboral individual y sujeto colectivo; fuentes del derecho del trabajo; relaciones entre normas y actuación...
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En el contexto de la globalizacin econmica los mercados laborales han ido sufriendo transformaciones en sus procesos de administracin, organizacin y empleabilidad. De ah que la interrogante que orienta la presente publicacin es cmo se ubican los profesionistas en el mercado laboral flexible y cules son las competencias que le son requeridas en el acceso al mismo?. El libro integra en sus captulos elementos conceptuales, caractersticas, clasificacin...
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El 11 de julio de 2012 el Congreso colombiano expidió la Ley 1562 que modificó el Sistema General de Riesgos Profesionales y dictó algunas normas en salud ocupacional. La nueva ley cambió la denominación de los riesgos para estar en concordancia con lo establecido por el Convenio 187 de 2006 de la OIT y, además, modificó el término de prescripción de las prestaciones económicas del Sistema, amplió la definición de accidente de trabajo,...
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"Perspektive Jura" ist das Expertenbuch zum Einstieg in juristische Berufe im Öffentlichen Dienst, in Kanzleien und in Unternehmen. In zahlreichen Berufsbildern und Erfahrungsberichten stellen Autor:innen aus der Praxis interessante Tätigkeiten für leistungsstarke Jurist:innen vor. Auch die wichtigsten Fragen rund um Studienplanung, Bewerbung und Karriere werden beantwortet: Wie kann man bereits in Studium und Referendariat die Weichen für die...
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