Thailand at a Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities in Leveraging Migration for Development

This article gives an introduction about the issue brief which examines the country’s migration challenges ahead and the two basic approaches to regularizing labor migration: Memoranda of Understanding with migrant-sending …

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The Evolution of Labour Law In India: An Overview and Commentary on Regulatory Objectives and Development

This paper provides an overview of the labour and employment laws in India. The primary focus is on the important legislations passed by the Governments to ensure the protection and …

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Enforcement of International Framework Agreements under U.S. Law

Goldman proposes methods to convert the “soft law” of Global Framework Agreements into enforceable “hard law.” He describes enforcement under the U.S. Labor Management Relations Act, contract theories, consumer protection …

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UK; EU: “Identifying ‘Exploitative Compromises’: The Role of Labour Law in Resolving Disputes Between Workers”

Both at the policy level and at the workplace level, the interests of labor are not always a unified set of interests versus employers with capital in the traditional “labour …

United Kingdom: Seldon v Clarkson, Wright and Jakes, 2012

This case explains age discrimination in connection with compulsory retirement.  Here, the claimant claimed that his mandatory retirement at age 65 was discriminatory.  The Court decided that the claimant did …

United Kingdom: Homer v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police, 2012

This case is about age discrimination in connection with a new policy requiring employees to have a law degree before they receive a particular higher pay scale.  It was noted …

DAVID BRIAN CHANDLER v CAPE PLC

The claimant was an employee of Cape Building Products Ltd at a site which manufactured asbestos boards. During the course of his work, the claimant was exposed to asbestos dust …

Social Protection for Thailand’s Informal Economy Workers

This article discusses the social protection for the informal economy which developed in Thailand after the big flooding in 2011. https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/features/WCMS_177229/lang–en/index.htm

Monitoring International Labor Recruitment: A Cross-Visa Exploration of Regulatory Challenges

A 2012 comparative analysis of non-immigrant visas used to employ foreign workers in the United States. The report identifies and briefly describes visas of special interest in the recruitment of …

Dockers and Seafarers: What the Politics of Spatial Embeddedness and Geographical Scale Have Meant for Union Organizing in the European Maritime Trades

This article (in 37 Lab. Stud. J. 203 (2012)) considers the strategic challenges of labor organizing within maritime trades, with a conceptual focus on labor geography. It explores how mobility and …

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