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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Globalization and the Right to Free Association and Collective]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=137199]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[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]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Improving Labor Standards in the Apparel Industry: Can Government Make a Difference?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=125370]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Labor Standards and Trade Agreements]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=161136]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Comparing Intellectual Property Rights With Competition Policy, Environmental Protection, And Core Labor Standards]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Labor Department Says Memphis, Tenn., Firm in Violation of Labor Standards Act.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_200208/ai_n21660671]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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  ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[International Labor Standards and Market Integration before 1913: A Race to the Top?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=133427]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Marriott International Shareholders Force Company to Divest from Burma; ISS to Support Hotel Employees Restaurant Employees International Union's Push for Global Labor Standards]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2002_May_1/ai_85367123]]></link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[International Labor Standards and Trade: What Should Be Done?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Labor Standards : Where do They Belong on the International Trade Agenda?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=67170]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2001 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The International Organization and Enforcement of Labor Standards]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=67198]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2001 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Labour Standards and Poverty Reduction: International Strategies]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=134137]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2001 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[International Labor Standards in the World Trade Organization and the International Labor Organization.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4356/is_200007/ai_n15205382]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[`Resolve conflict between free trade, labor standards', BUSINESS TIMES]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5556/is_200006/ai_n21950282]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2000 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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