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Why Middle Eastern Companies Should Extend Medical Insurance to Include Parents

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In this short essay, you will see how Medical Insurance on employees’ parents can benefit the companies and serve their objects. The aspects are the following: 1.     Showing and gaining respect: By including parents in medical insurance, corporates are expressing their appreciation to people who raised their employees, and we know how much parents means in sons’ & daughters’ life in Middle East. Therefore, and as it is expected, that workers will return this gesture by doing their job in best ways they could. 2.     Enhance company’s attraction to quality people: It is not a secret that one of the benefits companies can offer to any prospective or current employee is to include their parents in health insurance coverage. As a result, companies’ ability to hunt or keep valuable employees would increase. 3.     Not the first company: There are many examples of successful entities, which considered as attractive workplaces in Middle East, that implying parents’ medi

A Disagreement with Lord Hoffmann's Rules in Contract's Interpretation

I.          Introduction It appears that there is a difference between two principles in common law when it comes to contracts interpretation. Since 1982, The Australian High courts have endorsed the Codelfa approach, from Codelfa Construction Pty Ltd v State Rail Authority of N.S.W . , in interpreting commercial contracts. [1] The notion of Codelfa approach requires judges to adopt the natural and ‘plain meaning’ of contract words – not to construe the meaning of the words of an agreement, that is, unless there is an ambiguity. [2] In such cases where an obscurity in wording does occur, then the ‘evidence of surrounding circumstances is admissible to assist in the interpretation of the contract.’ [3] Thus, the judge will consider the background facts just when there is a lack of plain meaning in the terms of an agreement. In 1998, however, a new approach to contract interpretation was introduced, developed by Lord Hoffmann in the case of Investors Comp Schem