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...

In May 2017, Xi Jinping called the Latin American countries [LAC] “a natural extension of the Maritime Silk Road…” Recent years of China's increasing trade and investment has affected industries and jobs, and thus has also given rise to labor issues, as Chinese firms tend to hire Chinese...

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...