International Labour Law

No one will deny that labour standards comprise a necessary framework for balanced economic and social development. Yet on a global level such balanced development has not occurred, despite the existence of a rigorous body of international labour law that has been active and growing for almost one hundred years. The implementation of this law devolves upon states; yet many states have failed to honour it. If we are to take serious steps toward a remedy for this situation, there is no better place to start than a thorough, well-researched survey and analysis of existing international labour law - its sources, its content, its historical development, and an informed consideration of the barriers to its full effectiveness.

This book is exactly such a resource. It provides in-depth interpretation of the crucial International Labour Organisation (ILO) instruments - Constitution, conventions, declarations, resolutions, and recommendations - as well as such other sources of law as the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and various model and actual corporate codes of conduct. Among the substantive areas of labour law covered in this book are the following:

• the relationship between international labour law and economic competition

  
  



• standards on industrial relations

  
  



• collective bargaining and dispute settlement procedures

  
  



• protection of trade unions

  
  



• prohibitions on enforced and child labour

  
  



• promotion of equal opportunity and treatment

  
  



• time and rest provisions

  
  



• wage determination and protection

  
  



• occupational health and safety provisions

  
  



• special issues on non-standard forms of employment

  
  



• foreign and migrant workers