Republic Act No. 9258 March 2‚ 2004 AN ACT PROFESSIONALIZING THE PRACTICE OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING AND CREATING FOR THIS PURPOSE A PROFESSIONAL REGULATORY BOARD OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING‚ APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled: ARTICLE I TITLE‚ DECLARATION OF POLICY‚ DEFINITION OF TERMS Section 1. Title. - This Act shall be known as the "Guidance and Counseling Act of 2004
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Information Technology Acts As information technology continues to advance so does the need to protect consumers from the new ethical issues that arises. Congress tries to protect consumers from numerous ethical issues through developing and passing of laws. These advances happen so rapidly that it becomes difficult to foresee ethical issues. One of many ethical issues related to information technology is the ease of access to consumers’ personal information. Telemarketing companies’ acquire
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Daring to Act Paper Sophia Jackson Jonathan Johnson Timothy Gibson Matthew Willaman Ohio Christian University Christian Excellence CM3000 Professor Jennifer Cornwall March 2‚ 2014 There are in each of our lives appointed times that we must make decisions; stay put‚ move forward‚ pray‚ quit my job‚ ask for a raise‚ or simply decide to do nothing but relax. It would seem these are simple notions that bear nothing of consequence or urgency; however just as there are these simple times‚ there
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The Sarbanes –Oxley Act of 2002 has increased integrity of business dealings and financial reporting. Over the past decade‚ there were a huge number of corporate fraud cases. Companies were creating fraudulent accounting statements. In order to accomplish massive fraud‚ fictitious sales‚ inflated inventories‚ and phony profits were invented by corporate schemers. Companies such as Sunbeam‚ Waste Management‚ Rite-Aid and some others were some of the earlier cases before getting to the larger scandals
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History of Business Fugitive Slave Act The westward expansion of slavery was one of the most dynamic economic and social processes going on in this country. The Industrial Revolution had changed every aspect of American life and the country’s borders spread westward with the addition of the Mexican Cession—opening new cotton fields. To maintain the original Constitutional balance of lawmaking power‚ Congress continued to play the compromise game in 1820 and 1850 to maintain an equal number of
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THE INDIAN CONTRACT ACT‚ 1872 CONTRACT Section 2(h) defines a contract as “an agreement enforceable by law” Thus to make a contract there must be – (i) an agreement (ii) the agreement should be enforceable by law. All agreements are not enforceable by law and‚ therefore‚ all agreements are not contracts. Some agreements may be enforceable by law and others not. For example‚ an agreement to sell a radio set may be a contract‚ but an agreement to go to see a movie may
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Act and Rule Utilitarianism There are a lot of differences and similarities between act and rule utilitarianism. Act utilitarian supports the principle of utility must be applied to each individual situation. The rightness or wrongness of an action is determined by its usefulness. This was Bentham’s idea when he established that pleasure and pain was important qualities for determining what was morally right or wrong. With Act Utilitarianism‚ you must decide what action will bring the greatest
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The Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act‚ also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act‚ or Obamacare‚ was put into law by President Barack Obama on March 23‚ 2010. The focus of the Act is a health care law geared towards improving the health care system of the United States by broadening medical coverage to more Americans‚ as well as protecting the existing health insurance policy holders. The Obama Administration‚ states that those people that already have
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INDIA’S NEW COMPETITION LAW: A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT Aditya Bhattacharjea à ABSTRACT This paper critically examines India’s new Competition Act. I begin by examining the working of its predecessor‚ the 1969 Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act. Earlier studies‚ as well as a survey of recent cases undertaken for this paper‚ show that most cases under that Act involved consumer complaints and contractual disputes unrelated to competition. Very few cartels were prosecuted‚ the development of a
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THE EMPLOYEES’ STATE INSURANCE ACT‚ 1948 [Act No. 34 of 1948]1 [19th April‚ 1948 An Act to provide for certain benefits to employees in case of sickness‚ maternity and ‘ employment injury ’ and to make provision for certain other matters in relation thereto. WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for certain benefits to employees in case of sickness‚ maternity and employment injury and to make provision for certain other matters in relation thereto
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