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Matched Legal Cases: ['Art. 2745', '§5', 'Art. 2746', 'Art. 2747', 'Art. 2748', 'Art. 2749', 'Art. 2750', 'Art. 2751', 'Art. 2752', 'Art. 2753', 'Art. 2754', 'Art. 2755']

CHAPTER 5 - OF THE LETTING OUT OF LABOR OR INDUSTRY
Art. 2745. Labor may be let out in three ways:
1. Laborers may hire their services to another person.
2. Carriers and watermen hire out their services for the conveyance either of persons or of goods and merchandise.
3. Workmen hire out their labor or industry to make buildings or other works. [Acts 2004, No. 821, §5, eff. Jan. 1, 2005]
SECTION 1 - OF THE HIRING OF SERVANTS AND LABORERS
Art. 2746. A man can only hire out his services for a certain limited time, or for the performance of a certain enterprise.
Art. 2747. A man is at liberty to dismiss a hired servant attached to his person or family, without assigning any reason for so doing. The servant is also free to depart without assigning any cause.
Art. 2748. Laborers, who hire themselves out to serve on plantations or to work in manufactures, have not the right of leaving the person who has hired them, nor can they be sent away by the proprietor, until the time has expired during which they had agreed to serve, unless good and just causes can be assigned.
Art. 2749. If, without any serious ground of complaint, a man should send away a laborer whose services he has hired for a certain time, before that time has expired, he shall be bound to pay to such laborer the whole of the salaries which he would have been entitled to receive, had the full term of his services arrived.
Art. 2750. But if, on the other hand, a laborer, after having hired out his services, should leave his employer before the time of his engagement has expired, without having any just cause of complaint against his employer, the laborer shall then forfeit all the wages that may be due to him, and shall moreover be compelled to repay all the money he has received, either as due for his wages, or in advance thereof on the running year or on the time of his engagement.
SECTION 2 - OF CARRIERS AND WATERMEN
Art. 2751. Carriers and watermen are subject, with respect to the safe keeping and preservation of the things intrusted to them, to the same obligations and duties which are imposed on tavern keepers in the title: Of Deposit and Sequestration.
Art. 2752. They are answerable, not only for what they have actually received in their vessel or vehicle, but also for what has been delivered to them at the port or place of deposit, to be placed in the vessel or carriage.
Art. 2753. The price of a passage agreed to be paid by a women [woman], for going by sea from one country to another, shall not be increased in case the woman has a child during the voyage, whether her pregnancy was known or not by the master of the ship.
Art. 2754. Carriers and waterman [watermen] are liable for the loss or damage of the things intrusted to their care, unless they can prove that such loss or damage has been occasioned by accidental and uncontrollable events.
Art. 2755. The masters of ships and other vessels, and their crews, have a privilege on the ship, for the wages due to them on the last voyage. < Previous | Next >