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International Labor Standards in the World Trade Organization and the International Labor Organization.: For some time, the United States has attempted to draw labor standards under the umbrella first of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT and then the World Trade Organization WTO. The apparent purpose is to attempt to use the enforcem For some...; Tags: GATT, labor standards, World Trade Organization; Research articles 2000-07-01
Janitorial Workers to Receive $1.9 Million in Back Wages; State Division of Labor Standards Enforcement and U.S. Department of Labor Joined Forces to Investigate Claims: SAN FRANCISCO -- Following an investigation by the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement DLSE and the U.S. Department of Labor (U.S. DOL), an agreement has been reached with Global Building Services, Inc., of Newhall, CA to remedy labor law violations. Global Building Services has agreed to pay $1.9 million...; Tags: labor standards, U.S. Department of Labor; Research articles 2004-08-25
Marriott International Shareholders Force Company to Divest from Burma; ISS to Support Hotel Employees Restaurant Employees International Union's Push for Global Labor Standards: Business Editors; Tags: labor standards, Marriott International Inc., shareholder; Research articles 2002-05-01
`Resolve conflict between free trade, labor standards', BUSINESS TIMES: Business Times Malaysia 06-08-2000 THE World Trade Organization WTO should resolve the conflict between trade liberalization and core labor standards, and move towards promoting job creation and safeguarding workers' rights, Malaysian Trade Business Times Malaysia 06-08-2000 ...; Tags: free trade, labor standards, member state, World Trade Organization; Research articles 2000-06-08
Labor Department Says Memphis, Tenn., Firm in Violation of Labor Standards Act.: By Christopher Barton, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Christopher Barton, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; Tags: labor standards, U.S. Department of Labor; Research articles 2002-08-21

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...; Tags: Job, Labor Standards, Capital Equipment, Business & Legal Reports, Recruitment & Selection, Labor Relations, Human Resources, Workforce Management; Tools & templates 2008-11-01
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...; Tags: Job, Labor Standards, Business & Legal Reports, Recruitment & Selection, Labor Relations, Human Resources, Workforce Management; Tools & templates 2007-09-09
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...; Tags: Labor Standards, Institute For International Economics, Developing Country Governments Employer, Labor Relations, Human Resources; White papers 2002-01-15
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...; Tags: Labor Standards, Agreement, Labor Relations, Human Resources; White papers 2003-08-18
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...; Tags: Collective Bargaining, Labor Standards, Labor Relations, Globalization, Human Resources, Strategy, Management; White papers 2005-04-01
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...; Tags: Poverty, International Strategy, Labor Standards, Standards, Labor Relations, Quality, Security, Human Resources, Business Operations; White papers 2001-03-21
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...; Tags: Labor Standards, Integration, Labor Relations, Human Resources; White papers 2002-08-01
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...; Tags: Components, Government, Hardware, Harvard University, Labor Standards, Minimum Wage, Monitor, Monitors & Displays; White papers 2004-01-01
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....; Tags: World Trade Organization, Intellectual Property Right, Labor Standards, Standards, Institute For International Economics, Intellectual Property, Quality, Free Trade, Research & Development, Business Operations, Finance; White papers 2003-01-01
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...; Tags: World Trade Organization, Labor Standards, Labor Relations, Human Resources; White papers 2001-05-01
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...; Tags: Labor Standards, Labor Relations, Human Resources; White papers 2001-08-17

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Updated regs raise questions: the Labor Department's updated Fair Labor Standards Act is good news for business, but leaves distributors' inside sales question unanswered.(News)(regulations): WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Effective August 23, the U.S. Department of Labor issued its revised regulations of the Fair Labor Standards Act covering overtime pay eligibility--changes that were deemed long overdue by virtually all participants and observer WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Effective August 23, the U.S....; Tags: Fair Labor Standards Act, regulation, sales, U.S. Department of Labor; Research articles 2004-09-01
Troubled passage: the labor movement and the Fair Labor Standards Act: Historical events show that oppositions within the labor movement had prolonged passage of legislation relating to minimum wages and maximum hours, contained in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 For most observers, the issue of statutory labor standards is inalterably linked to the labor movement. And indeed it...; Tags: Benefits, CIO, Government, Labor, Lewis, president, Roosevelt, salary, standards, U.S. Congress, women, worker; Research articles 2000-12-01
Improving labor standards crucial for development - ADB workshop.: M2 PRESSWIRE-20 September 2002-ADB: Improving labor standards crucial for development - ADB workshop C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09202002 Manila, Philippines -- Government commitment to improving labor standards is crucial to ensure broad-based and sustainable development in the...; Tags: Asian Development Bank, workshop; Research articles 2002-09-20
Trade and Labor Standards: A Review of the Issues: Gary Fields, ed. Paris, OECD, 1995, $14, 35 pp.The decision last year by officials of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to study trade and labor standards represented a break from the past. In April, the OECD, through the efforts of its two directorates covering trade and employment and...; Tags: Government, OECD; Research articles 1995-08-01