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The Principle of Legal Certainty

The Spanish Constitution (CE) seeks to establish the principle of legal certainty, as outlined in Article 9.3: "The Constitution guarantees the principle of legality, the hierarchy of norms, the publicity of standards, the non-retroactivity of punitive provisions that are not favorable or restrictive of individual rights, legal certainty, accountability, and the prohibition of arbitrary public authorities."

Essential Requirements for Legal Certainty

To achieve legal certainty, certain standards must be met. Citizens need to be knowledgeable about these rules and be able to anticipate the consequences of their actions, understanding what can happen if they break them. Key requirements for legal certainty include:... Continue reading "Ensuring Legal Certainty: Foundations and Challenges" »

Employee Representative Rights and Protections

Functional Mobility of Representatives

The employer can instruct the employee representative to perform new functions (functional mobility) if there are objective reasons for this decision.

If discrimination is established due to the representative status, the decision of functional mobility can be annulled.

Priority of Stay and Protection Against Termination

C) Priority of Stay in the Company in Case of Termination or Suspension for Certain Causes, and in the Case of Geographical Mobility.

Protection During Redundancies and Contract Suspension

This priority applies in cases of:

• Redundancies: Collective (Art. 51.7 ET) or objective (Art. 52.c) ET) for technical, economic, organizational, productive reasons,

Economic Rights and Land Tenure in Europe

Restrictions on Asset Availability

In the realm of economic rights, local rights in Europe are characterized by imposing strong restrictions on the alienation of assets, especially land. This heritage, often tied to a family, could not be transferred inter vivos without the consent of relatives, and similar restrictions often applied upon the owner's death. It was often established by contract or testamentary succession rules, linking property to a certain lineage. In these cases, the owner was a trustee for life of a set of goods that had to maintain their integrity for subsequent delivery to a designated successor. However, the property's benefits could be enjoyed by different people, or it could provide... Continue reading "European Property Law: Historical Context and Legal Flexibility" »

Procedural Specialties

Laws of Single Reading

These laws are recommended for their brevity and simplicity, allowing processing through a short, straightforward procedure.

Deployment of the Legislative Process

This is used when a bill is extremely short or addresses a matter with significant unanimity.

Project Proposal

Given the short project, it may be proposed to the full House for processing directly in a single reading, which opens a debate. Once held, the project moves to a vote.

Voting and Outcome

If the vote is favorable, the bill or proposition is approved; otherwise, it is rejected.

Procedural Specialty

The rank of the law remains unchanged; the specialty is purely procedural.

Laws Differentiated by Technical Complexity

These laws shorten procedures... Continue reading "Legislative Procedures: Simplified Laws and Budget Laws" »

Workplace Rights and Responsibilities

Union Delegates and Representation

Besides regulating the election of union delegates in companies employing more than 250 employees, they represent the union branch and are elected by and among members of that union.

Your Rights as a Union Delegate:

1. Access to the same information provided to the committee.
2. Attending committee meetings (with voice but no vote).
3. Being heard by the company before taking collective actions that affect workers.

Understanding Collective Disputes

A collective dispute involves a generic or abstract group of people with a common interest to all of them as a group.

Example: It asks whether a given section of a company is entitled to a transportation bonus or not. This is a collective dispute,... Continue reading "Workplace Rights: Delegates, Disputes, and Safety" »

1The esructura classes and public employment: l works contracted staff (workforce differentiate between fixed and fixed period) Officials of employment (without permanent employment, internal (need and urgency when there is no race officials), if any (positions of trust, not restricted to officials).
2Access public employment: gene ral principles (equality, merit, advertising) Common elements (the choice is made by, opposition (test capacity) competition (merit rating) or competi-opposition.
Income officials: requisistos (Spanish, older, possess the required certificate, not having illnesses inpidan develop activities, not having been separated from the administration. System (opposition). Procedure (invitation, request, approved lists, testing... Continue reading "Public Employment Structure and Procedures in Spain" »

Affirmative Action

• Affirmative action gives special consideration to traditionally disadvantaged groups to overcome past discrimination.
• The charge that some affirmative action programs discriminate against non-minorities is called reverse discrimination.
• As a result of the Bakke case, race cannot be the sole factor in admissions decisions.
• In Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, the Supreme Court ruled that affirmative action programs cannot use quotas.
• In Hopwood v. State of Texas, the Bakke decision was challenged.
• California's Proposition 209 ended all state-sponsored affirmative action programs.

Bilingual Education

• Bilingual education programs result from government policies favoring multiculturalism.
• In Lau v. Nichols, the Supreme Court ruled children

It's important to distinguish between the legal method's inability to guarantee the construction of reality and the ability to rely on it regardless of methodological control. The legal system doesn't perfectly mirror legal reality, but it requires it as a means to capture it instrumentally, even if provisionally. This relates to the connection between law and right. Denying their complete identification, as legalism assumes, is different from dismissing the law's role. The law is already tasked with assessing the latent features of the right.

The debate within the political body initiates a process of interpretation, weighing the demands of freedom and equality present in parliamentary group programs. The result establishes a broad framework... Continue reading "The Law: Security, Interpretation, and Social Control" »

Locke's Political Philosophy

State of Nature

The state of nature is the condition in which humanity existed before forming societies and establishing collective ties.

War and Peace

In the state of nature, there are no judges or positive laws to regulate behavior. Instead, natural law governs human conduct. Peace exists when force is not used without right, while war is a state of enmity and destruction. War can occur in both the state of nature and civil society, but it is not a necessity.

Natural Law

Natural law consists of certain rules of nature that govern human behavior and can be discovered through reason. Individuals are free to make rational decisions, and reason provides moral autonomy, making them independent of ecclesiastical authority.... Continue reading "Locke's Political Philosophy: State of Nature, Natural Law, and Civil Society" »

The European Commission

Composition and Appointment

The European Commission is the body representing the common interest of the whole European Union. It is an institution independent of the Member States, responsible for centrally managing the common affairs of the EU. Its functions are regulated in Article 17 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and Articles 244 onwards of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

Article 17.1 TEU requires the Commission to promote the general interest of the Union and take appropriate initiatives to that end.

Composition

The Commission is a collegiate body consisting of as many Commissioners as there are Member States, specifically one national from each Member State. This includes the President... Continue reading "EU Commission: Composition, Appointment, and Role" »