{"title":"Seafarer Wage Claims and the Ensuing Jurisdictional Conflicts: Whither Are We Bound?","authors":"E. Briggs","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3860304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3860304","url":null,"abstract":"Unpaid seafarer wages constitute maritime liens, which stealthily attach to an offending vessel and vests in the Federal High Court of Nigeria, the appropriate jurisdiction to entertain such matters, when they so arise. Same had been the case until the amendment of the Constitution of Nigeria to vest exclusively in the National Industrial Court, all labour and employment related matters. This paper strives to examine the attendant brewing jurisdictional conflict that would ensue between the competing courts of record and puts forth legal opinion on the proper way to navigate through this labyrinth","PeriodicalId":314073,"journal":{"name":"LSN: Transnational Labor Issues (Topic)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124674698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is There a Right to Job Quality? Reenvisioning Workforce Development","authors":"Jonathan F. Harris, Livia Lam","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3644346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3644346","url":null,"abstract":"The coronavirus crisis has led to the unemployment of millions of workers and exposed a labor market that is full of poor-quality jobs. Policymakers intuitively resort to upgrading worker skills as a workforce response to the pandemic; however, the problem isn’t with retraining. The nation’s workforce development system is in shambles. It lacks appropriate accountability mechanisms to ensure workers are matched to decent work and instead steers training for any in-demand job including those that offer low pay and poor working conditions. Enabling the changes needed requires a new legal regime that establishes a right to training for a quality job.","PeriodicalId":314073,"journal":{"name":"LSN: Transnational Labor Issues (Topic)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126853588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transnational Auditors, Local Workplaces, and the Law","authors":"P. Paiement","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3505584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3505584","url":null,"abstract":"Auditors of global supply chains play an influential role in determining what it means for manufacturing facilities to comply with both transnational standards as well as national and international labor laws. They exercise this role at the interface between the local context of laborers in a workplace governed by local and national laws, and the transnational context of private standards intended to govern global supply chains. This article utilizes the concept of translocal legality to explore how auditors develop and deploy their authority and technical expertise to interpret questions about compliance with legal and private norms in global supply chains. It illustrates how auditors transform what it means to be compliant with legal requirements, and in doing so creates a distinction between acceptable and unacceptable types of risk to workers’ safety in the context of economic globalization.","PeriodicalId":314073,"journal":{"name":"LSN: Transnational Labor Issues (Topic)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114289334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Israel's Bilateral Agreements with Source Countries of Migrant Workers: What is Covered, What is Ignored and Why?","authors":"Yuval Livnat","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3523087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3523087","url":null,"abstract":"The article explores the variety of matters that bilateral labor agreements (BLAs) could and should regulate for the protection of migrant workers, and then asks what led Israel, in the BLAs that it signed with source countries of migrant workers, to put such emphasis on protecting migrants during their recruitment (and especially to unsure non-payment of excessive recruitment fees) yet show so little concern in protecting them while in Israel and on their way back home. Three distinct theses are presented as possible explanations to this ostensible discrepancy: the care thesis (Israeli civil servants sincerely cared for the special hardships that recruitment fees inflicted on migrant workers on their way to Israel); the pressure thesis (the American State Department and the Israeli Supreme Court compelled Israel to address recruitment fees via BLAs), and the control thesis (Israeli Ministry of Interior realized that excessive recruitment fee payments curtail its power over migrant workers – as Courts are reluctant to confirm deportation of migrants who did not cover the cost of the recruitment fees that they paid – hence acted to eliminate such payments). Based on these three theses, the article also explores what could potentially motivate Israel to expand its future BLAs, in a way that they would not only protect migrants on their way to Israel, but also while they are in the country and on their way back home.","PeriodicalId":314073,"journal":{"name":"LSN: Transnational Labor Issues (Topic)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116156281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Misconceiving 'Seasons' in Global Food Systems: The Case of the EU Seasonal Workers Directive","authors":"Lydia Medland","doi":"10.1111/eulj.12235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/eulj.12235","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the EU Seasonal Workers Directive alongside case study data of seasonal agricultural workin Spain. The conceptual contribution is to critically consider‘seasonality’and the related assumptions aroundtemporary labour migration for agricultural work. This consideration informs an analysis of the Directive's policyapproach alongside its three global objectives. It is argued that this Directive is likely to fail to meet all three ofthese objectives; the assumed timeframe for labour demands does not correspond with unmet seasonalchallenges; the lack of options for undocumented workers already in the EU may compound their marginalisation;the policy approach of circular migration and limited worker protections does not do enough to prevent newseasonal workers from falling into situations of vulnerability and undocumented status.","PeriodicalId":314073,"journal":{"name":"LSN: Transnational Labor Issues (Topic)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124036777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Harmonization in the Eyes of Polish Stakeholders – In Search of Consensus","authors":"K. Beaumont, K. Mirecka, Izabela Styczyńska","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2996449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2996449","url":null,"abstract":"Aspects of labor mobility and discrepancies in social benefits schemes in Member States became an urgent matter to address. Revision of the Posting of Workers Directive, the European Pillar of Social Rights and the European Mobility Package were aimed at introducing more harmonization within the EU countries. However, the EU propositions faced a strong resistance from some groups of stakeholders and Member States. Moreover, the debate has been evolving quickly given recent events such as the economic and migration crises and Brexit. CASE held a forum with various Polish stakeholders, where CASE experts gathered views on the future of social situation in the EU. They are all summarized in this Policy Brief. Main policy recommendations emphasize that proposed legislation is important for Poland, however it still needs more debate, since under current form certain policies might be harmful for many EU Member States.","PeriodicalId":314073,"journal":{"name":"LSN: Transnational Labor Issues (Topic)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127318250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gig Economy: Settlements Leave Labor Issues Unsettled","authors":"Miriam A. Cherry","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2776213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2776213","url":null,"abstract":"This short paper, which appeared on the Law360 blog, is an effort to think through the consequences of the proposed April 2016 settlement of the Uber drivers' lawsuits. This paper makes reference to the special issue of the Journal of Comparative Labor Law & Policy that is dedicated to the legal and economic issues surrounding crowdwork.","PeriodicalId":314073,"journal":{"name":"LSN: Transnational Labor Issues (Topic)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127441216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Punishment and Work Law Compliance: Lessons from Chile","authors":"César F. Rosado Marzán","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2114370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2114370","url":null,"abstract":"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 observation at the Labor Directorate and the labor courts of Chile, institutions that use punishment as their main tools of enforcement, I am skeptical about the likelihood of success of mere punishment for effective workplace law enforcement and compliance. I am skeptical even though Chile is a country recognized as the Latin American “jaguar” for its successful economy and high respect for the rule of law. I observed that in Chile punishment bred a culture of resistance against workplace law enforcement. Some powerful employers mobilized courts and other government players against the labor inspectorate, the agency in charge of administratively enforcing all laws regarding the workplace, rendering the institution moot. My findings provide further evidence for New Governance, responsive regulation and traditional “Latin” inspection strategies being advocated by some law and policy scholars in the United States and beyond. While most of these scholars do not discard the importance of punishment, they call for more participatory and cooperative regulatory and enforcement processes, the use of persuasive rather than just punitive enforcement orientations, and conciliatory and remedial strategies by the enforcers to obtain better compliance results. In this manner, the Chilean case supports continued experimentation with non-punitive enforcement tools not just in Chile but also in the United States and beyond.","PeriodicalId":314073,"journal":{"name":"LSN: Transnational Labor Issues (Topic)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114140867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Amended Proposal for a Directive on Services in the Internal Market and its Potential Impact on the Irish Tourism Industry","authors":"Bruce Carolan","doi":"10.21427/D7CJ4N","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21427/D7CJ4N","url":null,"abstract":"The European Union Services Directive, Directive 2006/123, was very controversial. The popular press focused on that aspect of the Directive which would have allowed employers to comply with the 'home' regulations when offering services in an EU 'host' country. For example, a cleaning service could employ Polish workers to clean Irish offices and paid them according to Polish minimum wage laws. As a result of the controversy, this aspect of the Directive was dropped. The controversy deflected attention from the broader impact of the Services Directive. The Directive, as ultimately adopted, will require member states to conduct an 'audit' of all rules and national regulations impacting on cross-border provision of services. Some will have to be eliminated as a potential violation of the Directive (e.g., the requirement of a physical office in the host member state). Other regulations will have to be defended as necessary and proportionate to the pursuit of a legitimate aim. In addition, member states will have to streamline and simplify the procedures by which one obtains permission to provide services across borders into the host member state. This will require the establishment of a central facility through which all necessary information can be obtained. It must be possible to do this online. The Services Directive will have a major impact on the Irish tourism industry, one of the largest industries in Ireland. This industry is rife with protectionist rules and regulations, and lacks the transparency required under the Directive. This article examines this overlooked aspect of the impact of the Services Directive.","PeriodicalId":314073,"journal":{"name":"LSN: Transnational Labor Issues (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128653162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trade Unions in the EU Facing Global Companies: Legal Obstacles and Innovations","authors":"Marie-Ange Moreau, Maria Esther Blas-Lopez","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1024424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1024424","url":null,"abstract":"In the European Union, a set of legal instruments was developed to enhance social partners’ actions. Here, we consider whether these instruments encourage, at Community level, efficient trade union actions in response to the strategies deployed by multinational firms at international level. In the first part, this paper synthetically illustrates that, despite these positive developments, some considerable legal obstacles remain in the European Union. In contrast, the second part presents some interesting and innovative experiences. A precise evaluation of their results is still difficult to make, because they are related to emerging legal norms whose appropriation by social partners is still in its early stages.","PeriodicalId":314073,"journal":{"name":"LSN: Transnational Labor Issues (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122830338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}