This article examines how digitalization and robotization may affect the configuration and use of labor supply chains and the need for overseas cheap labor. Emphasis will be placed on China and its program of Made in China 2025 as well as its possible effects on foreign MNC labor supply chains...

This paper discusses the appropriateness of making due diligence a binding obligation for human rights and labor rights. It examines the evolution of traditional soft law into hard law, with recent domestic legislation imposing civil liability for failure, and discusses “due diligence”...

An EU-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) can stimulate new labor protections and collective labor union cooperation in Chinese and EU workplaces, benefitting individual workers. Not only will it bring possible substantive improvements provided by the...

This paper analyzes emergent U.S. bilateral trade and investment frameworks, specifically its Model Free Trade Agreement (“FTA”) and Model Bilateral Investment Treaty (“BIT”), with respect to labor provisions and relative enforcement mechanisms, which will likely be enveloped in any...

Russia had few temporary workers in the 1990s, but after the fall of the Soviet Union and the entrance of foreign MNCs, the percent of workers on temporary contracts grew in 2014. In 2016, a new law was implemented that bans hiring temporary workers except through government-accredited agencies,...

Russia had few temporary workers in the 1990s, but after the fall of the Soviet Union and the entrance of foreign MNCs, the percent of workers on temporary contracts grew in 2014. In 2016, a new law was implemented that bans hiring temporary workers except through government-accredited agencies,...

This paper therefore focuses on domestic laws that provide workers with an additional avenue of remedy from an expanded employment relationship—a doctrine of joint employer liability that places obligations “up the chain” on the in-country originating contractor who benefits from the...

The very issues created by corporate restructuring and changing workplace environments, with their infusion of new technology, also create emerging employment law issues in regulating the changes and in addressing the challenges in evaluating performance. The workplace environment significantly...

It is time for European Union and Chinese leaders to build on the existing EU-China 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation, quickly conclude on-going negotiations on their EU-China Bilateral Investment Treaty, and begin substantive negotiations on an EU-China Free Trade Agreement? China is now...