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work-to-rule : the practice of working to the strictest interpretation of the rules as a job action ...
work product doctrine
work product doctrine : a doctrine or rule that protects an attorney's work product from discovery called also work product rule NOTE: This doctrine applies to work product of all kinds, but it may be waived for certain materials (as documents) if the party seeking discovery shows that it has a substantial need of the materials in preparing its own case and that it is unable without undue hardship to obtain the substantial equivalent of the materials by other means. ...
Housing of the working classes
Housing of the working classes. The Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 51), replaces with amendments the Housing Acts, 1925, 1930 and 1935, and consolidates the general law on the subject with some exceptions, chiefly relating to agricultural populations and needs, which are also provided for in unrepeated portions of the Acts of 1930 and 1935. Very wide powers are conferred on local authorities over the ownership of land and housing properties, and populations within their districts, enabling those authorities to make bye-laws for houses occupied or adaptable for the working classes; to effect the clearance, demolition, rebuilding, redevelopment or improvement of houses either singly or in whole areas and other-wise regulating sites or houses; to prevent over-crowding, and generally making it incumbent on these authorities to review and provide for the housing conditions of the working classes, and in addition giving powers of compulsory expropria-tion of private owners fr...
Development work
Development work, construction of the under-ground market is not intended and meant to destroy the intrinsic character of a public park but on the contrary, the scheme is to re-locate and re-develop the park as a public park as a place for public recreation. Construction of underground market is held to be development work, Calcutta Youth Front v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1988 SC 436 (439). [Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 (59 of 1980), s. 353(2) Expl.]Development works, construction of schools, hospitals and community centres and other community buildings do not come within the purview of the term 'development works', D.L.F. Qutab Enclave Complex Educational Charitable Trust v. State of Haryana, (2003) 5 SCC 622 (634). [Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Rules 1976, R. 2(b)]...
going and coming rule
going and coming rule : a rule that an employee cannot receive workers' compensation benefits for injuries suffered while coming to or going from work see also special hazard rule, special mission exception ...
special hazard rule
special hazard rule : an exception to the going and coming rule that allows an employee to recover from an employer for injuries sustained while going to or coming from work NOTE: The special hazard rule applies when the place at which the injury occurred was along the only available route or when the employee would not have been there if not for the employment and usually the risks associated with the location are distinctive or greater than the risk common to the public. ...
Preliminary decree
Preliminary decree, a preliminary decree is one which declares the rights and liabilities of the parties leaving the actual result to be worked out in further proceedings, Shankar Balwant Lokhande v. Chandrakant Shankar Lokhande, AIR 1995 SC 1211 (1212)....
Working pressure for permanent gas
Working pressure for permanent gas, means the internal pressure of the gas in the cylinder at a temperature of 15'C. [Gas Cylinder Rules, 2004, R. 2(xlii)]...
Equal pay for equal work
Equal pay for equal work, it does not mean that all the members of a cadre must receive the same pay packet irrespective of their seniority, source of recruitment, educational qualifications and various other incidents of service, State of Andhra Pradesh v. G. Sreenivasa Rao, (1989) 2 SCC 290.Article 39(d) of the Constitution proclaims 'equal pay for equal work for both men and women' as a Directive Principle of State Policy. Equal pay for equal work for both men and women means equal pay for equal work for everyone and as between the sexes. The Preamble to the Constitution declares the solemn resolution of the people of India to constitute India into a Sovereign Socialist Democratic Republic. Again the word 'Socialist' must mean some thing. Even if it does not mean to each according to his need it must at least mean 'equal pay for equal work'.'The principle of equal pay for equal work is expressly recognized by all socialist systems of law, e.g., s. 59 of the Hungarian Labour Code, Pa...
Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English)
Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English), which repeals twenty-seven previous statutes on the same subject, makes provision for the constitution of a body to be called 'The Public Works Loan Commissioners,' who are authorized to make loans for certain public purposes which are enumerated in the first schedule to the Act. They are appointed every five years: see the Public Works Loans Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 49). The Act of 1875 has been extended and amended by numerous Acts.Among the works for the purposes of which the Commissioners were authorized to lend money are as follows: Baths and wash-houses provided by local authorities; burial grounds provided by burial boards or, in Scotland, by either burial or parochial boards; construction or improvement of canals; conservation or improvement of rivers of main drainage; docks, harbours, and piers, and any work for which the Public Works Loan Commissioners are authorized to lend by s. 3 of the Harbour and Passing Tolls Act, 1861; impro...
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