Assessment of Labour Provisions in Trade and Investment Arrangements
Assessment of Labour Provisions in Trade and Investment Arrangements

Author: ILO.

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9789221303763

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Nearly half of trade agreements concluded in the past five years included either a labour chapter or labour provision that makes reference to international labour standards and ILO instruments. But challenges remain, particularly with respect to sustainability of impacts, coherence, and cooperative efforts. This report, part of the Studies on Growth with Equity series, gives a full examination of the scope and effectiveness of these labour provisions.

Assessment of Labour Provisions in Trade and Investment Arrangements
Assessment of Labour Provisions in Trade and Investment Arrangements

Author: International Labor Office

Publisher: International Labor Office

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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Nearly half of trade agreements concluded in the past five years included either a labor chapter or labor provision that makes reference to international labor standards and ILO instruments. The evidence so far suggests that labor provisions have been an important tool for raising awareness and improving laws and legislations with respect to workers' rights, increasing stakeholder involvement in negotiation and implementation phases, and developing domestic institutions to better monitor and enforce labor standards. But challenges remain, particularly with respect to sustainability of impacts, coherence, and cooperative efforts. This new report, part of the Studies on Growth with Equity series, gives a full examination of the scope and effectiveness of these labor provisions.

Handbook on Assessment of Labour Provisions in Trade and Investment Arrangements
Handbook on Assessment of Labour Provisions in Trade and Investment Arrangements

Author: INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE.

Publisher:

Published: 2017-07-18

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 9789221303428

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Labour provisions have become more commonplace in trade agreements and increasingly comprehensive in their scope. The Handbook provides practical information in a format geared towards non-specialist audiences focusing on different approaches regarding the content and implementation mechanisms of labour provisions (including technical cooperation and dialogue). In this regard, the Handbook presents different case-studies, with particular focus on implementation of the labour provisions, specific effects, and challenges. Particularly, it emphasizes the importance of stakeholders' involvement in the implementation of the provisions. In addition, the Handbook explores other areas related to trade and labour, such as global supply chains, corporate social responsibility provisions in trade agreements and gender considerations.

Promoting and Enforcing Compliance with Labour Provisions in Trade Agreements
Promoting and Enforcing Compliance with Labour Provisions in Trade Agreements

Author: Marva Corley-Coulibaly

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789220386620

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An important question related to labour provisions in trade agreements is how these mechanisms - which are detailed in the trade agreements - work in practice, particularly in the context of a labour dispute. This study seeks to answer that question through an analysis of monitoring, cooperation areas and activities, and dispute settlement procedures associated with labour provisions in trade agreements, based on desk research, data from the ILO's Labour Provisions in Trade Agreements Hub, and interviews with stakeholders.

Labour Provisions in Trade Arrangements
Labour Provisions in Trade Arrangements

Author: Franz Christian Ebert

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13:

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Maps out the use of labour provisions in the rising number of bilateral and regional trade agreements. Shows that at the international level, an important step was taken with agreement on the four Core Labour Standards (CLS), as defined in the ILO Declaration of 1998 (ILO, 1998), which are further specified in the ILO's Fundamental Conventions. Mentions the ILO's Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98), the Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100), the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105), the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111), the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138), and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182).

Labour Laws and Global Trade
Labour Laws and Global Trade

Author: B. A. Hepple

Publisher: Hart Publishing

Published: 2005-03-25

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1841131601

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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the new methods of transnational labour regulation that are emerging in response to globalisation.

Methodology for Impact Assessment of Free Trade Agreements
Methodology for Impact Assessment of Free Trade Agreements

Author: Michael G. Plummer

Publisher: Asian Development Bank

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9290921978

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This publication displays the menu for choice of available methods to evaluate the impact of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). It caters mainly to policy makers from developing countries and aims to equip them with some economic knowledge and techniques that will enable them to conduct their own economic evaluation studies on existing or future FTAs, or to critically re-examine the results of impact assessment studies conducted by others, at the very least.