Although the term ‘job quality' is not known to Australian law in any formal or technical sense, there are various ways in which labour regulation in Australia can be seen to have embraced the idea. These include the richly textured way in which industrial tribunals came to regulate minimum...

This chapter deals with the question of whether labour standards are less relevant or more relevant for the new world of work which is vastly different from the old world of work when most labour standards were first established. The various rationales for labour standards are first outlined....

This paper provides a first assessment of the causal impact of the 2018-2021 reform in Korea meant to combat its long working-hour culture. The reform consists of lowering the statutory limit on total weekly working hours from 68 to 52. We apply a difference-in-difference approach in which we...

Domestic work is the subject of an International Labour Organization (ILO) standard-setting exercise that is expected to generate an international Convention in June 2011. As a contribution to that process, this study addresses the working time dimensions of domestic work. Across the globe,...

When it was passed, the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act sought to address the “evils” of underpay and overwork by establishing a minimum wage and requiring premium overtime pay. However, today's low-wage, hourly workers more often face underwork than overwork. In this paper, we examine the...

The paper examines changes in wage and hour labor regulation between 1898 and 1938. Many see the 1905 Lochner Supreme Court decision striking down hours limits for men as the beginning of 30 years in which labor regulation was stymied by the doctrine of "freedom of contract." That issue played a...

Dieses Werk erläutert, wie die zahlreichen Rahmenbedingungen bei der Personaleinsatzplanung und der Dienstplangestaltung zu berücksichtigen sind, damit eine effektive und serviceorientierte sowie erfolgs- und ergebnisorientierte Personaleinsatzplanung gelingen kann. Viele praktische Beispiele...