O tema desenvolvido guarda pertinência com a denúncia unilateral do contrato, a qual só deve produzir efeitos depois de transcorrido prazo compatível com eventuais investimentos consideráveis realizados pela contraparte, a teor do art. 473, par. ún., do Código Civil. Sendo assim, a pesquisa foi iniciada com premissas teóricas atinentes à liberdade contratual e suas vicissitudes em distintos momentos históricos. Esclarecido que a liberdade contratual deve ser sopesada com a intervenção Estatal para otimizar o desenvolvimento econômico e o bem-estar social, o trabalho demonstra, inicialmente, a coerência da mencionada norma em meio ao paradigma contemporâneo dominante. Em seguida, foram apresentadas reflexões para explicar a finalidade da inserção do dispositivo legal no ordenamento positivo. Com intuito de vedar o abuso de poder econômico, a norma foi introduzida especificamente para coibir o exercício abusivo do direito de resilição. Sendo este o escopo da norma, a primeira parte do trabalho ofereceu subsídios para justificar porque cabe ao juiz impor a prorrogação contratual, quando o denunciante não respeitar prazos compatíveis com os investimentos empreendidos pela outra parte. Já quanto à segunda parte, foram lançadas elucubrações sobre os distintos aspectos das relações contratuais duradouras. Nesse ponto, foram apontadas importantes contribuições doutrinárias a respeito da influência do aspecto temporal sobre as relações contínuas e, ainda, perspectivas da análise econômica do direito, além da abordagem relacional do contrato. Restando elucidado que a prorrogação do contrato pode (e deve) ser imposta pelo intérprete, na última e terceira parte deste trabalho, é proposta uma interpretação sistemática e axiológica da norma do art. 473, par. ún., do Código Civil. / The subject developed concerns the unilateral termination of the contract, which shall only take effect after certain length compatible with sizeable investments made by the counterparty, as set forth in Article 473, sole paragraph, of the Civil Code. Therefore, the research began with theoretical premises regarding the contractual freedom and its variations in different historical moments. Once clarified that the contractual freedom must be counterbalanced by governmental intervention in order to optimize economic development and social well-being, the study initially demonstrates the consistency of the aforesaid rule in the midst of the currently reigning paradigm. In addition, some reflections were presented to explain the purpose of the insertion of the provision in the written body of laws. Seeking to prevent the abuse of economic power, the ruling was created specifically to diminish abusive use of the right to terminate. Given the scope of the provision, the first part of the paper sustained why should the judge extent the length of the notice when the terminating party fails to comply with a compatible term taken into account the investments carried out by the other party. As for the second part, there are musings about different aspects of long-term contracts. Important contributions from legal doctrine were pointed out concerning the influence of time on long-term relationships, and furthermore on perspectives of the economic analysis of Law, besides the relational approach to the contract. As it becomes plain that the extension of a contract may be, or rather ought to be, imposed by the judge, on the third and last part of the dissertation, it is proposed a systematic and axiological interpretation of the ruling set forth by Article 473, sole paragraph, of the Civil Code.

This essay aims to study the new regulation of the Swedish legislation regarding fixed-term work with a comparison to the EU directive 99/70/EC[1]. The essay also aims to study if the new legislation makes any difference for the individuals that has a fixed-term employment. The EU directive 99/70/EC is the legislation which shows how the member states in the EU are supposed to prevent employers from abusing frequent temporary employment and aims to protect the employees. Previously, an employer in Sweden could use the fixed-term contracts for temporary employments and just keep on giving the employee a temporary position in a spiral. In this way, the employer could avoid to give an employee a permanent employment and this makes for an unsafe future for the affected individual. In may 2016 Sweden, after criticism from the EU-commission, changed the Swedish legislation and aimed to stop the abusing of fixed-term contracts. Sweden wanted to try to keep the balance between the employer’s flexibility and the employee’s safety and this essay aims to investigate to what extent the change fulfills the purpose. [1] Council Directive 1999/70/EC of 28 June 1999 concerning the framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP. Later know as the EU directive 99/70/EC.

Magister Legum - LLM / This study is encouraged by the fact that the field of labour law has drastically changed after enactment of amendments in various labour legislation such as Employment Equity Act, Basic Conditions of Employment Act and Labour Relations Act during 2013 and 2014. These changes have compelled employers to review their policies in line with the amendments of these Acts. This study will however focus on the impact of the newly introduced section 198 to the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995. The study will specifically focus on the continued use of fixed-term contracts of employment within the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Sector of South Africa.

The Swedish regulation concerning fixed-term contract has been a topic for discussion during the last decade. It has been criticised for not following the council’s directive 1999/70/EG on the measures to prevent the abuse of fixed-term contracts. Since 2016 the regulation has changed. It has changed in order to have the legislation within the purpose and measures set in the fixed-term directive. This essay aims to clarify whether the new Swedish legislation is in accordance with the framework agreement attached to the directive on fixed-term contracts. This will be done by analysing the measures established in the framework agreement and the purpose of the directive, then compare the result with the Swedish legislation. This part of the essay will be written using the legal dogmatic methodology. Since fixed-term contracts are more common among young people this essay will focus on how fixed-term contract, and regulations on fixed-term contracts, will affect the position of young people in the labour market. It is obvious that there are some difficulties to harmonize a legislation that suits all the social partners on the labour market. In fact, it can almost be impossible. By illuminate the political discussion regarding the use of fixed-term contracts it will help to understand why this matter is so complex and how it can be a stepping stone or a dead-end job. This will be done with a legal policy method.

I conducted a legal analysis of decisions by Texas Commissioners of Education in appeals by Texas school administrators from nonrenewal decisions made by Texas school districts from 1983 to 2013. I analyzed the findings of fact and conclusions of law described in the commissioners’ rulings to determine the legal basis of school districts’ decisions to nonrenew school administrators’ term employment contracts. I also examined the legal rationale for commissioners’ rulings and determined which party most commonly prevailed in these administrative proceedings—the respondent school district or the petitioner school administrator. In particular, the study determined factors that contributed to commissioners’ decisions to overrule or support school districts’ nonrenewal decisions. A careful review of commissioner decisions, which are accessible on the Texas Education Association website, identified 44 commissioner decisions involving appeals by superintendents, associate superintendents, public school administrators, athletic directors, or central office administrators concerning school districts’ term contract nonrenewal decisions from 1983 to 2013. Commissioners’ decisions in these cases were surveyed using legal research methods. This study provides recommendations to assist local education agencies to refine current policies and regulations regarding the nonrenewal of administrators’ term contracts, and provides insight on Texas Commissioners’ rulings on term contract nonrenewal appeals brought by Texas school administrators. The findings revealed that school boards’ lack of understanding of local policies and lack of evidence resulted in commissioners granting 27% of appeals. Additionally, commissioners denied 73% of the appeals because school boards provided at least one reason that met the substantial evidence standard of review, and respondents failed to substantiate allegations or enter evidence in evidentiary hearings.

O presente trabalho analisa as relações de consumo nos planos privados de assistência à saúde a partir dos princípios da vulnerabilidade e da confiança. Aborda o contexto pós-moderno no qual este pacto está inserido e os reflexos que o avançar da idade podem trazer aos serviços médico-ambulatoriais. Analisa o tema a partir da doutrina, legislação e jurisprudência, investigando qual a resposta dada pelos operadores do direito para enfrentar os desafios que o agravamento da vulnerabilidade do consumidor-idoso traz aos planos e seguros de saúde. Busca verificar quais os instrumentos necessários para a tutela da saúde do idoso e de sua confiança, permitindo que ingressem nestes pactos com padrões mínimos e inderrogáveis de proteção, para que haja um desenvolvimento social harmônico e um crescimento econômico equilibrado desta importante parcela do mercado de consumo. Aborda a vulnerabilidade inerente à relação de consumo e a imprescindibilidade de uma hermenêutica jurídica adequada à proteção dos idosos nos contratos de planos e seguros de assistência à saúde, bem como a importância do diálogo das fontes para reconstruir a confiança dos consumidores-idosos. Examina o fenômeno crescente da judicialização da saúde suplementar no Brasil para o controle de cláusulas e práticas abusivas neste importante setor do mercado de consumo. Por fim, ressalta a necessidade de ações afirmativas no campo dos serviços privados médico-assistenciais através do diálogo das instituições como forma de reconstruir e reforçar a confiança do consumidor. / The present work analyzes consumer relations in the healthcare plans and in the health insurance based on the principles of vulnerability and trust. It addresses the postmodern context in which this pact is inserted and the reflexes that advancing age can bring to the medical outpatient services. It analyzes this issue from the doctrine, legislation and jurisprudence, investigating the response given by legal operators to the challenges that the aggravation of the vulnerability of the elderly consumer can bring to health insurance and healthcare plans. It seeks to verify the necessary mechanisms to protect the health of the elderly and their confidence, allowing them to enter in these contracts with minimum and non-derogable standards of protection, so it can be had a harmonious social development and balanced economic growth of this important part of the consumer market. It discourses the vulnerability inherent in the relationship of consumption and the indispensability of proper legal interpretation to the protection of the elderly in healthcare plans and health insurance, and the importance of the dialogue of the sources to rebuild elderly consumer confidence. Examines the growing phenomenon of the development of the number of claims at the Judiciary, associated to matters related to health insurance and healthcare plans in Brazil and to the control of clauses and abusive practices in this important sector of the consumer market. Finally, it emphasizes the need for affirmative action in the field of private medical care services through institutional dialogue to rebuild consumer confidence and strengthen the principle of trust, contributing to a harmonious social development and balanced economic growth. Finally, it emphasizes the need for affirmative action in the field of private medical care services through institutional dialogue to rebuild consumer confidence and strengthen the principle of trust.

Trafikverket ansvarar för det statliga vägnätet i Sverige. Vägnätet består av cirka 15 500 broar som ständigt utsätts för olika former av nedbrytning. Broarna behöver därför underhållas med jämna mellanrum både för att hålla broarna i ett bra skick och för att motverka att nedbrytningen påskyndas. Under de senare åren har Trafikverket utformat en ny upphandlingsmetod av brounderhåll. Den går ut på att allt brounderhåll för en region paketeras, i ett s.k. brounderhållspaket, som en entreprenör sköter i en femårig period. I brounderhållspaketen ingår förebyggande underhåll, avhjälpande underhåll och akut underhåll. Syftet med det här arbetet är att följa upp den nya formen att upphandla brounderhåll i paket. Målet är att tydliggöra vilka vinster, eller förluster, som gjorts i effektivitet i hela kedjan sedan införandet av brounderhåll i paket.   De metoder som använts vid skapandet av examensarbetet är litteraturstudier, möten och intervjuer samt analyser, beräkningar och jämförelser. Resultatet visar hur beställare, entreprenör och konsult arbetar i brounderhållspaket och vad som har förändrats jämfört med hur de arbetade med brounderhåll tidigare. De största effektivitetsvinsterna är administrativa. Genom att brounderhållspaketen är en totalentreprenad läggs mycket av ansvaret över från beställaren till entreprenören och därmed får beställaren tid till andra arbetsuppgifter. Eftersom brounderhållet numera ligger i eget kontrakt som löper under en längre tid får beställaren också en kunnig entreprenör till arbetet vilket minskar antalet grundläggande frågor och frigör tid. Entreprenören får mer frihet när arbetena skall utföras och samtidigt mer tid till att planera underhållsarbetet. Genom en tät kommunikation mellan beställare och entreprenör blir beslutsvägarna kortare vilket effektiviserar hela kedjan. Skaraborgspaketet var ett av de första brounderhållspaketen och det skiljer sig mycket från de senare underhållspaketen. Den största förändringen ligger i förfrågningsunderlagen. Skaraborgspaketet utgick från en fiktiv bro medan förfrågningsunderlagen i de nyare paketen behandlar verkliga åtgärder som entreprenören kommer att utföra under den kontrakterade tiden. / Trafikverket is responsible for the public traffic network in Sweden. The traffic network contains around 15 500 bridges that constantly are exposed of different kinds of degradation. The bridges must therefore be maintained at regular intervals both to keep bridges in good condition and to prevent the degradation accelerated. During the last years Trafikverket has developed a new procurement method of bridge maintenance. The method involves that all bridges maintenance of a region is being bundled to one contract that an entrepreneur handles for five years, a socalled bridge maintenance package. A bridge maintenance package exists of preventive maintenance, remedial maintenance and emergency maintenance. The purpose of this paper is to follow up the new form to procure bridge maintenance in package. The goal is to clarify the gains or losses made in efficiency since the introduction of bridge maintenance in package. Methods used in the creating of this thesis are literary studies, meetings and interviews along with analysis, calculations and comparisons. The result lays the foundation for the client, contractor and consultant working in the bridge maintenance package and further what has changed from the way they were working on bridge maintenance earlier. The largest efficiency gains are administrative. Because a bridge maintenance package is a turnkey contract the majority of responsibility is put on the contractor, instead of the client, which gives the client time for other tasks. Nowadays the bridge maintenance is in a separate contract which lasts for a longer time which gives the client a more qualified contractor for that kind of work which is reducing the number of fundamental questions and gives the client extra time. The contractor will get more operating freedom and at the same time more time to plan maintenance work. Through frequent communication between client and contractor decision-making paths becomes shorter which gives more efficiency throughout the entire process. The package in the region Skaraborg was one of the first bridge maintenance packages and it differs a lot from later maintenance packages. The biggest difference is in the contract documents. The package in Skaraborg was based on a fictional bridge while the more recent maintenance packages documents addresses the real action which the contractor will perform during the contracted period.

O presente trabalho analisa as relações de consumo nos planos privados de assistência à saúde a partir dos princípios da vulnerabilidade e da confiança. Aborda o contexto pós-moderno no qual este pacto está inserido e os reflexos que o avançar da idade podem trazer aos serviços médico-ambulatoriais. Analisa o tema a partir da doutrina, legislação e jurisprudência, investigando qual a resposta dada pelos operadores do direito para enfrentar os desafios que o agravamento da vulnerabilidade do consumidor-idoso traz aos planos e seguros de saúde. Busca verificar quais os instrumentos necessários para a tutela da saúde do idoso e de sua confiança, permitindo que ingressem nestes pactos com padrões mínimos e inderrogáveis de proteção, para que haja um desenvolvimento social harmônico e um crescimento econômico equilibrado desta importante parcela do mercado de consumo. Aborda a vulnerabilidade inerente à relação de consumo e a imprescindibilidade de uma hermenêutica jurídica adequada à proteção dos idosos nos contratos de planos e seguros de assistência à saúde, bem como a importância do diálogo das fontes para reconstruir a confiança dos consumidores-idosos. Examina o fenômeno crescente da judicialização da saúde suplementar no Brasil para o controle de cláusulas e práticas abusivas neste importante setor do mercado de consumo. Por fim, ressalta a necessidade de ações afirmativas no campo dos serviços privados médico-assistenciais através do diálogo das instituições como forma de reconstruir e reforçar a confiança do consumidor. / The present work analyzes consumer relations in the healthcare plans and in the health insurance based on the principles of vulnerability and trust. It addresses the postmodern context in which this pact is inserted and the reflexes that advancing age can bring to the medical outpatient services. It analyzes this issue from the doctrine, legislation and jurisprudence, investigating the response given by legal operators to the challenges that the aggravation of the vulnerability of the elderly consumer can bring to health insurance and healthcare plans. It seeks to verify the necessary mechanisms to protect the health of the elderly and their confidence, allowing them to enter in these contracts with minimum and non-derogable standards of protection, so it can be had a harmonious social development and balanced economic growth of this important part of the consumer market. It discourses the vulnerability inherent in the relationship of consumption and the indispensability of proper legal interpretation to the protection of the elderly in healthcare plans and health insurance, and the importance of the dialogue of the sources to rebuild elderly consumer confidence. Examines the growing phenomenon of the development of the number of claims at the Judiciary, associated to matters related to health insurance and healthcare plans in Brazil and to the control of clauses and abusive practices in this important sector of the consumer market. Finally, it emphasizes the need for affirmative action in the field of private medical care services through institutional dialogue to rebuild consumer confidence and strengthen the principle of trust, contributing to a harmonious social development and balanced economic growth. Finally, it emphasizes the need for affirmative action in the field of private medical care services through institutional dialogue to rebuild consumer confidence and strengthen the principle of trust.

O presente trabalho analisa as relações de consumo nos planos privados de assistência à saúde a partir dos princípios da vulnerabilidade e da confiança. Aborda o contexto pós-moderno no qual este pacto está inserido e os reflexos que o avançar da idade podem trazer aos serviços médico-ambulatoriais. Analisa o tema a partir da doutrina, legislação e jurisprudência, investigando qual a resposta dada pelos operadores do direito para enfrentar os desafios que o agravamento da vulnerabilidade do consumidor-idoso traz aos planos e seguros de saúde. Busca verificar quais os instrumentos necessários para a tutela da saúde do idoso e de sua confiança, permitindo que ingressem nestes pactos com padrões mínimos e inderrogáveis de proteção, para que haja um desenvolvimento social harmônico e um crescimento econômico equilibrado desta importante parcela do mercado de consumo. Aborda a vulnerabilidade inerente à relação de consumo e a imprescindibilidade de uma hermenêutica jurídica adequada à proteção dos idosos nos contratos de planos e seguros de assistência à saúde, bem como a importância do diálogo das fontes para reconstruir a confiança dos consumidores-idosos. Examina o fenômeno crescente da judicialização da saúde suplementar no Brasil para o controle de cláusulas e práticas abusivas neste importante setor do mercado de consumo. Por fim, ressalta a necessidade de ações afirmativas no campo dos serviços privados médico-assistenciais através do diálogo das instituições como forma de reconstruir e reforçar a confiança do consumidor. / The present work analyzes consumer relations in the healthcare plans and in the health insurance based on the principles of vulnerability and trust. It addresses the postmodern context in which this pact is inserted and the reflexes that advancing age can bring to the medical outpatient services. It analyzes this issue from the doctrine, legislation and jurisprudence, investigating the response given by legal operators to the challenges that the aggravation of the vulnerability of the elderly consumer can bring to health insurance and healthcare plans. It seeks to verify the necessary mechanisms to protect the health of the elderly and their confidence, allowing them to enter in these contracts with minimum and non-derogable standards of protection, so it can be had a harmonious social development and balanced economic growth of this important part of the consumer market. It discourses the vulnerability inherent in the relationship of consumption and the indispensability of proper legal interpretation to the protection of the elderly in healthcare plans and health insurance, and the importance of the dialogue of the sources to rebuild elderly consumer confidence. Examines the growing phenomenon of the development of the number of claims at the Judiciary, associated to matters related to health insurance and healthcare plans in Brazil and to the control of clauses and abusive practices in this important sector of the consumer market. Finally, it emphasizes the need for affirmative action in the field of private medical care services through institutional dialogue to rebuild consumer confidence and strengthen the principle of trust, contributing to a harmonious social development and balanced economic growth. Finally, it emphasizes the need for affirmative action in the field of private medical care services through institutional dialogue to rebuild consumer confidence and strengthen the principle of trust.

This diploma paper in detail describes inventory separately from aspect of Czech accounting legislation and international accounting standards IAS/IFRS. Attention is devoted to meaning, structure and contents of individual legal enactment, qualification and division of inventory, methods of accounting and publication and especially their evaluation. The objective of this thesis is comparison of Czech accounting legislation and IAS/IFRS to find out differences between Czech legislation and IAS/IFRS in qualification, accounting, publication and evaluation of inventory. All determined differences are summarized in closing parts of the work together with classification of individual legal enactment and recommendations for Czech accounting legislation about implementation of some useful elements from IAS/IFRS.