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- 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
- Improving Labor Standards in the Apparel Industry: Can Government Make a Difference?
- This paper examines patterns of compliance with federal minimum wage laws in the U.S. apparel industry and analyzes the impact of new methods of intervention designed to improve regulatory performance. Specifically, in 1996, the U.S. Department of Labor began to use pressure arising from its statutory ability to interrupt the...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- 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
- Comparing Intellectual Property Rights With Competition Policy, Environmental Protection, And Core Labor Standards
- The negotiation of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights TRIPS greatly expands the purview of the World Trade Organization WTO into domestic regulatory standards. The minimum standards required in TRIPS are essentially about production processes, thereby erasing the traditional "product versus process" distinction in the trading rules....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand, LLP, and Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben, P.A., Announce Wal-Mart Found to Have Violated Minnesota's Fair Labor Standards Act over 2 Million Times
- Wal-Mart Ordered to Pay $6.5 Million in Back Pay in Dakota County Class Action MINNEAPOLIS -- Law firms Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand, LLP and Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben, P.A., today announced that Dakota County District Court Judge Robert King, Jr. has found that Wal-Mart violated Minnesota's Fair...
- Articles 2008-07-01
- Commentary: For workers, a clear choice
- America's political parties have chosen their presidential nominees and the choice could not be clearer. The GOP's John McCain is solidly on the side of management. His agenda emphasizes tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations at the expense of the middle class, reduced regulation that...
- Articles 2008-06-27
- By the numbersCity itemizes pay
- OTHER FACTS n The department on Friday saw 10 firefighters take vacation, personal leave or "Kelly days," which they receive off to ensure they don't work overtime hours in excess of thresholds established by the Fair Labor Standards Act. Twenty-eight firefighters took sick leave, with that figure...
- Articles 2008-06-26
- Wisconsin schools question green cash giveaway
- The federal government might soon send cash to school districts for green upgrades, but some superintendents are looking for strings and questioning the amount. If a proposed bill passes the U.S. Senate and is signed by the president, it will free up cash for school districts across...
- Articles 2008-06-26
- Mine-safety changes proposed by MSHA
- The Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration has a new proposal on belt air, improved belt materials and fire protection in underground coal mines. The proposed rule change was published Thursday in the Federal Register. "The objective of this proposed rule is to improve mine...
- Articles 2008-06-20
- Labor Commissioner and El Dorado District Attorney Collaborate in Motel Sweep
- SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Officials with the State Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (Labor Commissioner's Office) issued 23 citations totaling $52,250 in fines to motels in 10 California counties as part of an ongoing effort to address noncompliance with workers' compensation laws. As part of the recent two-day enforcement sweep, state...
- Articles 2008-06-20
- State Officials Issue Order to Prohibit Galt-based Farm Labor Contractor from Operating
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions. The corrected release reads: STATE OFFICIALS ISSUE ORDER TO PROHIBIT GALT-BASED FARM LABOR CONTRACTOR FROM OPERATING The Department of Industrial Relations DIR today issued an order prohibiting Solis...
- Articles 2008-06-14
- In 2007, the China Shipped out Personal Grooming Appliances Products Worth Us$1.3 Billion, up by 24 Percent from the Previous Year
- DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/efd35e/china_sourcing_rep) has announced the addition of the "China Sourcing Report: Personal Grooming Appliances" report to their offering. Personal grooming appliance exports from China continue to grow steadily, with most suppliers forecasting sales increase of more than 20 percent in 2008. ...
- Articles 2008-06-13
- How to Save $14 Million? Stanford Hospital & Clinics Asks and Its Employees Speak Up
- STANFORD, Calif. -- Stanford Hospital & Clinics administrators didn't wait for proposals on how to remove six cents from every non-labor operating cost dollar. They just did it - over $14 million - and left the particulars of how to save that amount to be determined. Less than a year...
- Articles 2008-06-10
- ALLSTAFF SOFTWARE FILLS NEED FOR SUPPLEMENTAL STAFFING.
- Given healthcare organizations reliance on supplemental staffing resources, AtStaff has introduced new ClairVia software, ClairVia eWork, that facilitates rapid access to external staff while optimizing safety standards, quality and cost control of supplemental employees. By using ClairVia eWork, healthcare organizations and external ...
- Articles 2008-06-01
- A review of field sanitation standards under OSHA
- The Wage and Hour Division WHD of the United States Department of Labor DOL is responsible for administering and enforcing federal laws that set basic labor standards. Field sanitation standards are reviewed hereto remind mushroom growers that it is their responsibility to provide safe and healthy working conditions for employees....
- Articles 2008-06-01
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