Handbook on Assessment of Labour provisions in Trade and Investment Arrangements

A 2017 ILO Handbook provides practical information in a format geared towards non-specialist audiences focusing on different approaches regarding the content and implementation mechanisms of labour provisions (including technical cooperation …

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Labor Migration from China to Europe: Scope and Potential

The report aims to enhance the understanding of the scope, opportunities, and challenges of labor migration from China to the EU; promote sound policies and practices; reduce the vulnerability of …

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Collective Labor Disputes and Strikes in Russia: The Impact of Judicial Precedents and Enforcement

This paper examines Russian legislation and mechanisms regulating labor protests, conflicts and strikes and the approach of the courts to collective labor disputes and strikes in Russia (in particular, the …

Article “Discrimination Damages – Promoting or Preventing Access to Justice?”

A central aim of Swedish (and EU) labor law is to combat unlawful discrimination in the workplace and critical to this aim is ensuring that claimants are able to obtain …

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Sweden: Article “Atypical Work in the Digital Age – Outline of a Trade Union Strategy for the Gig Economy”

This article considers the trend towards more uncertain forms of employment in the gig-economy and the challenges this presents for trade unions. The article outlines a union strategy to respond …

Belgium: Unia, Socio-economic monitoring – Labor market and origin, Brussels, 2017

Inequalities on the labor market between people of Belgian origin and people of foreign origin are manifest and accentuated according to gender and age. In 2014, the employment rate was …

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EU, Germany: The Law Concerning the Election of Employee’s Representatives in Company Bodies (Report in light of the CJEU case Konrad Erzberger v TUI AG, C 566/15)

This report discusses a current case referred by German court to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in relation to workers’ participation in the supervisory boards in an international company …

Italy: Il Centro Studi Diritti & Lavoro Monthly Newsletters 2017

The Il Centro Studi Diritti & Lavoro is a legal research initiative in Italy founded by Fabio Rusconi and Andrea Danilo Conte. This is the compilation of the Italian language monthly newsletters from …

Mongolia: Principle of Prohibition Discrimination in Labour Relations and Judicial Practice of Labour Disputes (Law Review No.1, 2017 pp.84-92)

This article is written by one of the leading labour law experts of Mongolia, professor B.Urantsetseg. The paper reviews the employment discrimination regulation under both local and international law, including …

Transnationalizing Unions: The Case of the UAW and the IG Metall

This case study documents the Transnational Partnership Initiative between the United Auto Workers union in the United States and the IG Metall union in Germany. The two unions joined efforts …

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