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Damages and Attorney’s Fees

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  1. In illegal-dismissal cases, which circumstance can support moral damages when properly established?
  2. What is the function of exemplary damages in a properly supported labor case?
  3. Which proposition about attorney’s fees as a labor-case award is correct?
  4. A tribunal finds dismissal illegal but finds no evidence of bad faith, fraud, oppression, or another qualifying basis f…
  5. An employee was forced to sue to recover unlawfully withheld wages and protect employment rights. The tribunal explains…
  6. Managers deliberately strip an employee of accounts, alter performance records to pressure resignation, and publicly hu…
  7. A corporate employer is held liable for illegal dismissal and damages. A claimant asks that every director and HR emplo…
  8. Why does a finding of illegal dismissal not automatically justify moral and exemplary damages?
  9. Distinguish backwages, moral damages, exemplary damages, and attorney’s fees in an illegal-dismissal case.
  10. An employer argues that attorney’s fees cannot be awarded because the employee failed to establish bad faith sufficient…
  11. What generally distinguishes actual damages under Civil Code2199?
  12. Can temperate damages address pecuniary loss shown to have occurred when its amount cannot be proved with certainty by …