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Der Handkommentar ber|cksichtigt sämtliche gesetzlichen Neuregelungen und ermöglicht eine sachliche und n|chterne Auseinandersetzung mit dem MiLoG. Die einschlägigen Regelungen des AEntG, AÜG, TVG, SchwarzarbG sowie die aufgrund des Gesetzes erlassenen Verordnungen werden einbezogen. Alle Auswirkungen im Blick Noch wird unterschätzt, dass das MiLoG das gesamte Recht der Arbeitsbeziehungen durchdringt: Es geht nicht nur um die Lohnhöhe, sondern auch um grundlegende Fragen der Arbeitsrechtswirklichkeit wie - Arbeitszeitkonten, - Anrechenbarkeit von Zuschlägen, Provisionen und Sachleistungen, - Bereitschaftszeiten, - grenz|berschreitende Tätigkeit, - Umrechnung St|cklohn/Zeitstunde, - Haftung und Sanktionen bei Verstöáen, - Behandlung von Praktikanten, - Arbeitszeitaufzeichnung, - Kontrolle durch Zollbehörden oder - Vergabe öffentlicher Aufträge. Die vielfältigen Fragen, die sich Arbeitnehmeranwälte, Betriebsräte, Unternehmensjuristen, anwaltliche Berater und Personalmanager in Folge der Regelung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohnes stellen, beantwortet das Autorenteam mit groáer Kompetenz und stets mit Blick auf die betriebliche Praxis und deren Erfordernisse: Prof. Franz-Josef D|well, VRiBAG a.D., Prof. Dr. Jens Schubert, ver.di und Leuphana Universität L|neburg; RiArbG Dr. Fabian Clemens; RA Dr. Volker Dobmann; RA Micha Heilmann, Gewerkschaft NGG; VRiLAG Thomas Kloppenburg; Ass. jur. Kerstin Jerchel, ver.di; Dr. Bernd Ramming, Hauptzollamt Rosenheim; RiBAG Waldemar Reinfelder; RAin Martina Tr|mner, ver.di

Product Description: Facticity and Validity is one of Jurgen Habermas s principal works. In it, he proposes an innovative justification for the principles of the democratic constitutional state, and, at the same time, sums up his thinking on social theory and ethics (i...read more

Product Description: American communities are facing chronic problems: fiscal stress, urban decline, environmental sprawl, mass incarceration, political isolation, disproportionate foreclosures and severe public health risks. In The Price of Paradise, David Troutt argues that it is a lack of mutuality in our local decision making that has led to this looming crisis facing cities and local governments...read more

Product Description: Illegality in Marine Insurance Law is the first book to deal specifically with illegality in the context of marine insurance law. Previously, this issue has only ever been partially covered within analysis and criticism of Section 41 of the Marine Insurance Act 1906 and warranties...read more

Product Description: This book is about judicial reasoning in human rights cases. The aim is to explore the question: how is it that notionally universal norms are reasoned by courts in such significantly different ways? What is the shape of this reasoning; which techniques are common across the transnational jurisprudence; and which are particular? The book, comprising contributions by a team of world-leading human rights scholars, moves beyond simply addressing the institutional questions concerning courts and human rights, which often dominate discussions of this kind, seeking instead a deeper examination of the similarities and divergence of reasonings by different courts when addressing comparable human rights questions...read more

Product Description: The rich field of urban law has thus far lacked a holistic and concerted scholarly focus on comparative and global perspectives. This work offers new inroads into the global and comparative streams within urban law by presenting emerging frameworks and approaches to topics ranging from urban housing and land use to legal informality and consumer financial protection...read more

Product Description: This book makes the argument that secular married couple relationships, both same and different sex, should be sanctioned and supported by the State. This proposition cannot be supported at the expense of other intimate relationships that are not analogous to marriage...read more

Product Description: This book presents a comprehensive account of past and present efforts to introduce the jury system in Japan. Four legal reforms are documented and assessed: the implementation of the bureaucratic and all-judge special jury systems in the 1870s, the introduction of the all-layperson jury in the late 1920s, the transplantation of the Anglo-American-style jury system to Okinawa under the U...read more