"My view is there are many areas of weakness in this announcement - primarily that this is an unfair change in contractual terms for students, one no commercial company would've been allowed to do.
In New York City, for example, since the 1980s, the United Federation of Teachers has negotiated school-based options to allow teachers and principals to agree to change certain contractual rules to fit the educational needs of individual schools.
Neither ruling automatically mean all self-employed drivers will receive worker rights, but unless the firms change the contractual arrangements, they would be left open to mass claims in the employment courts.
This means that the employees concerned would regularly face serious uncertainty about the future of their jobs because a change of contractual partner could result in collective redundancies.
This subsection shall not apply to individually negotiated changes to contractual terms, such as individually modified workouts or renegotiations of amounts owed by a consumer under an open end consumer credit plan.
Thus, Thompson concludes that the "mania" was a rational response to changes in contractual obligations.
In 2007, GMPTE changed the contractual requirements to ensure that sustainable power would be factored into choosing an energy supplier, and in July 2007, Metrolink became the first light rail network in the UK with electricity supplied entirely from sustainable energy via hydropower.
While the majority of the disputes did not result in lawsuits, in many of the cases the situations raised legal questions, dealt with statutory compliance, or resulted in legal remedies such as changes in contractual procedure or binding agreements between parties.
While the majority of the disputes did not result in lawsuits, in many of the cases the situations raised legal questions, dealt with legal compliance, or resulted in legal remedies such as changes in contractual procedure or binding agreements between parties.
