This article details how minimum wage policies in Puerto Rico facilitated labor market centralization to establish a system of labor relations where labor, capital, and the government trusted each other. That trust, in turn, helped Puerto Rican policy makers to curb wage demands from labor...

Workplace law activists and reformers find it increasingly more difficult to obtain redress for violation of workers' rights. Some of them are calling for stricter enforcement and tougher penalties to bring employers into compliance. However, after seven and half months of participant...

In the United States, union density continues to decline, while income inequality increases. But while union density falls we have experienced the counterintuitive rise in international framework agreements (IFAs), or agreements signed by global union federations (“global unions”) and...

Latin American countries deregulated much less than the United States and Europe during the Great Recession. Perhaps the country with the most the most deregulation was Mexico, where some categories of employment contracts now no longer require cause for termination and where back pay awards...

Globalization has led to union decline almost universally across the world's capitalist democracies. But despite globalization, global labor unions have been able to sign International Framework Agreements (“IFAs”) with more than 110 multinational corporations that cover about 9 million...

Scholars have noted that judicial conservatism has eroded labor and employment law (hereinafter referred to as “work law”) in the U.S. and elsewhere. The Roberts Court has kept in line with such conservatism, perhaps with sharpened audacity, deciding a number of key work law cases in the...

Spanish Abstract: Es posible que el ente administrativo de la inspección del trabajo, con carácter sancionatorio y autónomo de la sociedad civil, pueda compeler el cumplimiento de las leyes laborales de manera efectiva? Recientes investigaciones han demostrado que una orientación pedagógica...

The European Court of Justice Laval quartet of cases held that worker collective actions that impacted freedom of services and establishment in the EU violated EU law. After Laval, The Swedish Labour Court imposed “exemplary,” or punitive damages, on labour unions for violating EU law. This...

Working class disorganization has been a fact in most of the OECD region for the past five decades. Outcomes of disorganization include increasing economic inequality and the precarization of work. But increasing precarization has also led to a surge in low-wage, oftentimes immigrant worker...