"Touching on the laws and practices of a wide array of countries around the globe, this book examines the extent to which refugees' and asylum-seekers' right to work is protected by international human rights law. The book examines a number of key international treaties, nationa…
Labour migration has become one of the hot topics in Europe, especially since 2000 with the shift from restriction to managed migration. This book reveals the impacts of ideas and knowledge on policy change in two of the major labour importing countries in the EU: the UK and Spa…
Focuses on states' and employers' obligations, and workers' rights relating to gender concerns derived from the ILO's body of international labour standards (Conventions and Recommendations). Reflects other relevant developments and trends in international law, supranational law…
"Arranged alphabetically by topic, it focuses primarily on States' and employers' obligations and workers' rights as regards equality between men and women, enshrined in the ILO's body of international labour standards (Conventions and recommendations). It also refers to other r…
"Arranged alphabetically by topic, it focuses primarily on States' and employers' obligations and workers' rights as regards equality between men and women, enshrined in the ILO's body of international labour standards (Conventions and recommendations). It also refers to other r…
This report analyzes the implications of recent developments in Chile's labor market and social policy and considers the available policy options from the perspective of OECD countries' experience. The report finds that Chile has experienced rising living standards over two deca…
Examines whether labour law, focusing primarily on employee protection, is under threat of becoming extinct with globalization. Compares labour law and regulation in four European countries, the US, New Zealand and Australia, and concludes that governments seek to strike a balan…
Examines whether labour law, focusing primarily on employee protection, is under threat of becoming extinct with globalization. Compares labour law and regulation in four European countries, the US, New Zealand and Australia, and concludes that governments seek to strike a balan…
Death of labour law?: comparative perspectives
Contents. Table of cases. Table of statutes. Table of material. 1. Myths and messages: theoretical perspectives. 2. Past and present: legal developments. 3. Past and present: women's work. 4. Women today. 5. Pregnancy and parenthood. 6. The state of pay. 7. Structural …
Migrants at Work
There is a highly significant and under-considered intersection and interaction between migration law and labour law. Labour lawyers have tended to regard migration law as generally speaking outside their purview, and migration lawyers have somewhat similarly tended to neglect l…
Most Americans assume that that employees alleging workplace discrimination face the same legal system as other litigants. However, employment discrimination cases have fared increasingly poorly in the courts and have come to operate in a fundamentally different legal system tha…
"Along with in-depth studies of Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Jamaica, and Trinidad, Law and Employment provides comparative analysis of Latin American economics against a range of European countries and the United States. The book breaks new ground by quant…
Law and Employment analyzes the effects of regulation and deregulation on Latin American labor markets and presents empirically grounded studies of the costs of regulation. Numerous labor regulations that were introduced or reformed in Latin America in the past thirty years have…