International Labour Law Now: Towards the Transnational Governance of Work

Описание: The 8th Annual Innis Christie Symposium in Labour and Employment Law presented by Prof. Kerry Rittich, Faculty of Law and the Women's and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto.

Work and workers across the globe are increasingly connected, through trade agreements, global manufacturing supply chains, migration and the outsourcing of work. At the same time, the new economy is producing short term contracts, "just in time" scheduling and other forms of insecurity for workers, while global competition among firms and workers place pressure on labour standards and workers’ associational rights.

What role do international labour standards, the ILO (International Labour Organization) and other international institutions play when it comes to workers’ rights and domestic labour law? How do corporations and private actors affect the terms and conditions of work through codes of conduct and industry standards like the Bangladesh accord, and how do labour and social justice activists mobilize those norms through legal and political action? Beyond labour standards, how might trade and investment agreements like the Transpacific Trade Partnership affect the position of workers? And how might development initiatives simultaneously advance
and weaken the position of workers and labour?