The case concerns a complaint by Clean Cloth Campaign Danmark and Aktive Forbrugere (Active Consumers) to the Danish OECD National Contact Point (NCP) regarding the activities of PWT Group. The complaint alleged that PWT Group had violated the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises by...

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...

FTAs in Asia-Pacific: “Next Generation” of Social Dimension Provisions on Labor?Recent years have brought a proliferation of Free Trade Agreements (“FTA”), bilateral and multilateral, often regional, with even larger ones being negotiated, such as the European Union (“EU”) and United...

This article analyses China's new Social Insurance Law and its treatment of foreigners in an international context. First discussed is the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 102 establishing standards and requirements for social security regimes. Second, other international...