Lernkarten
- what are the judiciary's main tasks
- name the two lower instance courts most countries have
- The judiciary (court system) has to apply the law and make sure that the legislative and the executive of the state act according to the law
- District court, first instance court
- What are the functions of the legislature
- Representative government (Bundeshaus, Kremlin, etc.) =means that the people vote for political decision makers to pass the laws of the country
- Most parliament are bi-cameral – two chambers
What is the executive in a government
What is meant by the term "failed state"
- Representatives of State (Bundesräte) usually elected by parliament
- States where security/excecutive is ordered by military and police (Afghanistan, Somalia, etc.)
What are the most important human rights, civil liberties of a civil democratic society
- Freedom of Speech
- Freedom of Association
- Liberty of Press
What does the legal theroy "Natural Law" entail
Who is Thomas Hobbs?
- natural law is a general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life
- This theory asserts that there are laws that are immanent in nature
- Everyone recognizes what is just and fair
- People often argue with the natural law against oppressive government
- Mahatma Gandhi British colonial rulers
Thomas Hobbs:
- a natural law practitioner, he set up 9 laws of nature
What does the legal theory "legal positivism" imply?
How is it linked to "natural law"?
- Laws are rules made, whether deliberately or unintentionally, by human beings
- There is no connection between the validity conditions of law and ethics or morality. A law can be immoral and still be valid and enforced
- A natural law jurisprudence would say that this law is legally deficient
- An unjust law is no law in the eyes of a naturalist and so doesn’t need to be obeyed
What subjects fall under Employment Law
- Administrative rulings
- precedents which address the legal right of, and restrictions on, working people and their organizations
- mediates aspects of the relationship between trade unions, employers and employees
What defines a foreign employee
When is it not necessary to have a work permission in Switzerland
Describe the term relocation
- someone working and living outside their country of origin-->Cross-borders commuter and business trips are not foreign employee
- if a business trip doesn’t go longer then 8 day in a period of 90 days, no permit is required
- relocation= temporary transfer of employees to another job in same organization (relocation agreement = fixed terms and conditions)
