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Article: Social Legislation
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SOCIAL LEGISLATION
SOCIAL LEGISLATION.
Laws that seek to promote the common good, generally by protecting and assisting the weaker members of society, are considered to be social legislation. Such legislation includes laws assisting the unemployed, the infirm, the disabled, and the elderly. The social welfare system consists of hundreds of state and federal programs of two general types. Some programs, including Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, and Workers' Compensation, are called social insurance programs because they are designed to protect citizens against hardship due to old age, unemployment, or injury. Because people receiving benefits from these programs ...
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700+ words
...Summary: The European Commission announced on December 15 that three Member States - France, Greece and Luxembourg - are to face legal proceedings before the European Court of Justice for the late transposition into national law of three key social policy Directives, those on working time
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