Thursday, April 26, 2007

Gun control and Virginia shooting (essay)

Gun is needed for protection, but people use it to kill other people without no reason... So there are many debates about gun control and the governments pass the laws to regulate this phenomenon. In the USA there is a constitutional right in the Second Amendment of the Constitution, where is stated "the right of people to keep and bear arms". So it comes into question if all people are able to have a gun and are they responsible for keeping the gun safely and, ofcourse, the question is if they would use it properly or they would use it for not legal actions.

The need of stricker lesgislation of gun control shows the resent events in the USA on 16 th of April in 2007. In Virginia Tech university there was a mascare where were 32 people killed. It is the brutalest shooting in the USA history. The South Korean23 years old Seung-Hui Cho, who killed 32 people and after this he commited a sucide, was a senior majoring at Virginia Tech. What was his reason, nobady can answer this question. But it is strange if nobody could stop him or reavel his intentions. "In 2005, he was declared mentally ill by Virginia special jusice."So where were the social workers or psychologists, why they didn't pay attention at him? He had to be invigilated all the time by the specialists at university, because he was a student between other students, who wants to feel safe. The other aspect of this is who the person like Seung-Hui Cho coul get a gun, form where or from who?

All the world was shocked and condoled over students's lifes. The governments realised that not everything is done for gun control, there shoul be taken more actions to avoid such a fatality.

Saturday, April 7, 2007

Employment law (summary)

Employment law regulates relations between employer and employee. These laws recognize and limit the right of workers to strike, deal with health and safety in the workplace, "limits upon working hours and ages". The most common point of this law is that almost all countries "developed systems of insurance to protect workers during sickness, unemployment and retirement". Employment law states that at the workplace should be equal work conditions, "requires equal pay for work of equal value", "ensure equality of opportunity for employee and job applicants whatever their race or sex". Also, this legislation gives the right to employee to know in advance that he will be dismissed and gives the right to compensation if he is dismissed unfairly or because of redundancy. For women there is a right to "time off in order to have a baby and the right to return to work within a certain period after having the baby". To add to this, these laws state that it is allowed to open the businesses, employment law guarantees a standard minimum wage and a right to have holiday. In comparison Western employment law with Japanese, despite the labor shortage, the not payed overtime work, Japan ensures better security for employees and better salaries...