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- Labor Standards : Where do They Belong on the International Trade Agenda?
- Recently, universal labor standards have become the focus of intense international debate. This paper analyzes the arguments concerning the value of coordinating labor standards internationally, the arena in which international labor standards ought to be established and the instruments that can be used constructively to bring about compliance. It...
- White papers 2001-08-17
- The International Organization and Enforcement of Labor Standards
- What action should be taken by international community with regard to labor standards, how should this action be organized, and by what means should it be enforced? The purpose of this paper is to provide answers to these three questions. Taking the perspective of economic theory, the paper describes here...
- White papers 2001-05-01
- International Labor Standards and Market Integration before 1913: A Race to the Top?
- This paper evaluates the twenty-first century debate on linking labor standards and trade, using evidence from the great period of globalization in the last half of the long nineteenth century. The paper first addresses whether there were any core labor standards before 1913. The answer is no. National authorities had...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- Labour Standards and Poverty Reduction: International Strategies
- Concepts of poverty have broadened in recent years beyond concerns about income and living standards to reflect a concern with vulnerability and risk, and with powerlessness and lack of voice. Increasingly, major institutions of global governance are moving toward comprehensive, broad-based and inclusive approaches to poverty alleviation that assert that...
- White papers 2001-03-21
- Globalization and the Right to Free Association and Collective
- This article tests the effect of globalization on a specific labor right, which forms part of what are commonly regarded as core or fundamental labor standards. Employing a new measure of free association and collective bargaining rights, it finds that countries that are more open to trade have fewer rights...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Labor Standards and Trade Agreements
- There is a wide disparity of views on issues of international labor standards. Labor and social activists are concerned about the increased imports from countries in which labor standards are ostensibly not enforced at a sufficiently high level. This paper explores these different views and the available options for addressing...
- White papers 2003-08-18
- International Labor Standards and Trade: What Should Be Done?
- To date, the debate over trade and labor standards has been frustratingly sterile with the key parties mostly talking past one another. Developing country governments employer's organizations and many trade economists have rejected any discussion of possible linkages between trade and labor standards, arguing that demands for such linking are...
- White papers 2002-01-15
- Industrial Engineer A Job Description
- The Industrial Engineer A job description template includes the following job summary: To establish labor standards and to resolve questions relating to job utilization and performance. To estimate labor standards for specific products, and assist the engineering department management to evaluate capital equipment requests. Also works on studies relating to...
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- Industrial Engineer A
- The Industrial Engineer A job description template includes the following job summary: To establish labor standards and to resolve questions relating to job utilization and performance. To estimate labor standards for specific products, and assist the engineering department management to evaluate capital equipment requests. Also works on studies relating to...
- Tools & templates 2008-11-01
Additional Resources
- Problem definition and public policy: congressional committees confront work, family, and gender, 1945-1990.
- 00-00-0000 Imagine that the members of the U.S. Congress that took office in 1945 could be magically transported 50 years forward in time. They would find federal policy in many areas quite familiar, at least in broad outline - the workplace still governed by the...
- Research articles 1997-09-01
- NRF, STANDARDS BOARD RELEASE CRITERIA FOR JUDGING WORKER SKILLS.
- WASHINGTON-Capping nine years of developing skills standards for workers in their relations with customers, the National Retail Federation NRF and the National Skills Standards Board released the latest version of their cross-industry performance criteria last week. The skills standards apply to duties commonly...
- Research articles 2001-04-23
- Food Roundup: China Safety Debate, Smithfield Union Delay, Kellogg Severance Pay, and More
- China postpones food safety debate -- The Chinese legislature will not debate proposed revisions to its food safety laws until early next year, in order to allow more time for evaluation. Melamine contamination and other food safety scandals have led the country to reevaluate its current policies. [Source: AP] ...
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- American Indian Tribes Troubled by NLRB Ruling on Unions.
- By Michael Kinsman, The San Diego Union-Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 12--Jobs on American Indian reservations have always come with their own set of work rules and regulations. The tribes are considered separate governments, entitled to establish their...
- Research articles 2004-06-12
- UNIONS FILE COMPLAINT AGAINST U.S. GOVERNMENT
- The AFL-CIO and the United Auto Workers filed a complaint in February against the United States government with the International Labour Organization ILO, an agency of the United Nations. The complaint alleges that a 2004 decision by the National Labor Relations Board NLRB in the Brown University case violates workers'...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Understanding Marketing Ethics
- Standards for marketing ethics guide companies in their efforts to do "the right thing." These standards help identify acceptable practices, foster internal control, and deal honestly and fairly with customers. They also ensure businesses comply with the law. Sometimes companies develop and publish their own ethical standards; other times they...
- Articles 2007-11-30
- State Department of Industrial Relations Moves to Make Meal and Rest Period Rules Permanent
- SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement DLSE, a division of the Department of Industrial Relations DIR, is seeking to make permanent the proposed regulations it developed governing meal and rest periods for California workers.
- Research articles 2004-12-21
- Meal and Rest Period Rules for California Workers Clarified by the State Department of Industrial Relations
- SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement DLSE, a division of the Department of Industrial Relations DIR today filed regulations with the Office of Administrative Law that will provide workers more flexibility in taking meal and rest periods and clarify penalty assessments paid to workers by noncompliant...
- Research articles 2004-12-10
- California Department of Industrial Relations Selects Unisys to Automate Licensing and Case Management; New System Will Consolidate Legacy Back Office Systems and Streamline Business Processes
- BLUE BELL, Pa. -- Unisys (NYSE:UIS) today announced that it was selected to provide a comprehensive case management solution for the California Department of Industrial Relations DIR. Unisys and its partner, Hansen Information Technology, will provide application software and professional services to DIR's Division of Labor Standards and Enforcement DLSE...
- Research articles 2005-06-20
- U.N. Global Compact Delists 630 Companies
- What do Tyco Services, Huatai Group, Ford Malaysia, L'Oreal Argentina, Barclay's Bank of Ghana and The Ethical Investment Company of Australia all have in common? Each is among the 630 companies the United Nations Global Compact has booted off of its worldwide list of participants for failure to submit a...
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Socially Responsible Investment Matches Conventional Market Strategies
- Socially responsible investment is booming, with the total dollars under management by U.S. funds specializing in this strategy more than quadrupling, from $639 billion to $2.7 trillion, between 1995 and 2007. But how has this ethically enhanced approach to investing fared in terms of market returns? Of...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
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