This paper is analyzing the prospects of the Russian minimum wage legislation reform from an international legislative perspective. Authors study historical aspects of conceptual development in the field worldwide, examine the "minimum wage" concept definitions suggested in international...

At its November 2008 meeting, the Committee on Legal Issues and International Labour Standards of the International Labour Organization's (ILO) Governing Body recommended that the International Labour Office prepare a study on improving the interpretation and implementation of international...

This chapter, which is part of a book exploring various issues that can arise in multinational corporate deals, explores the labor issues implicated in the Daimler-Chrysler merger. The potential combination of two major firms raises a host of labor and employment issues, especially when those...

Without any doubt, the IPEC is considered as one of the most ambitious program of the ILO. The program's main goal is to eliminate the worst forms of child labour at all until 2016. According to the public opinion child labour is deemed to be one of the Third World's issues far away from the...

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...

Work stoppages have become commonplace in American professional sports. Whether it takes the form of a strike or a lockout, a work stoppage, or the threat thereof, accompanies nearly all labor disputes between owners and players. This is hardly surprising, though, because the current system for...

Ever since the European Court of Justice delivered its Laval judgment on 18 December 2007, the name of this small Latvian company has become notorious. The sole mention of ‘Viking and Laval' has become short-hand for those critical of a certain idea of Europe giving primacy to economic...

Development thinking in the past two decades has explicitly embraced law as an engine of development. This legal turn has been accompanied by a dramatic expansion of efforts to measure and quantify legal systems. Against claims that legal indicators are neutral, technical descriptions of the...

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...