Business Law

Business Law



Business Law

Introduction

The Employees seem to be unaware about the relationship of their health and their work. Even if the worker is aware of the link between his health and his occupation he may not be able to prove it because sometimes it may take decades for the symptoms of the disease to raise their ugly head. Some hazards in workplaces tend to be quite subtle and may take months or years of repeated exposure in order for effects to become apparent. In such a long time period it is understandably quite difficult to point to one's occupation as the cause of one's ill-health.

For example suppose a worker might also happen to be a smoker it proves to be an impossible task to pinpoint one's occupation as the sole reason's for one's deteriorating health. Even if an Employee is aware of the possible dangers his job poses he still is responsible to make a living for himself and his family. In some cases it seems to be a choice between earning a living and your health.

An Employee generally tends to choose the one that has an immediate demand namely to make an earning, thus compromising his health in the bargain. An Employee also feels the lack of support form the Legal system. He feels there are not enough laws made to protect him as a worker. In this paper we analysed the case study of Healthy Eating Ltd. Also we provide an advice regarding the Compensation for Loss Suffered, Liability to compensate the injured volunteers and claims against Brown, Black & Co.

Compensation for Loss Suffered

From the case of Healthy Eating Ltd it is observed that compensation for loss suffered as a result of the compulsory purchase order issued by the local authority seems as Damages. While we see damage, as a remedy for breach of contract, is a remedy that places the innocent party, so far as money can do it, in the same situation with respect to damages as if the contract had been performed. This principle, which dictates the sum recoverable for breach of contract however is limited by two principles of law, as to do otherwise would provide a complete and unqualified indemnity for the losses suffered as a result of unpredictable and improbable events. Consequential loss is loss suffered as an indirect result of a breach of contract rather than as a direct result.

Firstly, the breach of contract must have caused the damage to the innocent party - there must be a connection between the breach and the loss (i.e. damage) suffered. Secondly, the innocent party may not recover loss that is 'too remote'. There are two types of loss that may result from a breach of contract: (1) direct loss [loss suffered in the usual course of events], and (2) indirect loss, or consequential loss. Consequential loss is the damage suffered “such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they ...