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Jan 06, 2011 01:33 PM
Author: ILO
Publishing Date:
2008
Category: Policy
ILO Report, 2008
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Jul 29, 2011 05:32 PM
Author: Y, Samphy
Publishing Date:
2008
Category: Research
Nagoya University Thesis, 2008 - This thesis analyzes matters over the two main categories of labor disputes in order to clarify the concerned legal provisions and the jurisdiction of the Arbitration Council over individual labor disputes. Also the purpose is to provide recommendations on certain criteria the Arbitration Council should consider in determining the dispute categories. The study is based primarily on relevant arbitral decisions made by the Arbitration Council from its inception in 2003 until 2008.
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Sep 19, 2011 01:44 PM
Author: Melanie Khamis
Publishing Date:
2008
Category: Research
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3911, December 2008 - This paper investigates a puzzle in the literature on labor markets in developing countries:
labor legislations not only have an impact on the formal labor market but also an impact on
the informal sector. It has even been argued that the impact on the informal sector in the
case of the minimum wage is stronger than on the formal sector. Using quasi-experiments of
minimum wage changes and thereby exploiting geographical variation of the minimum wage
bite, I find evidence for this hypothesis. Informal workers, workers without social security
contribution, experienced significant wage increases when the minimum wage was raised
while formal workers did not. This result highlights that non-compliance with one labor
legislation, the social security contribution, does not necessarily imply non-compliance to
other labor laws such as the minimum wage.
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Jul 24, 2011 01:15 PM
Author: Asia Monitor Resource Centre
Publishing Date:
2008
Category: Research
Asia Monitor Resource Centre, 2008 - Review of the situation and mechanisms of labour administration and labour law in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR).
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Jan 06, 2011 11:27 AM
Author: ILO
Publishing Date:
2008
Category: Policy
ILO Report, 2008
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Jul 24, 2011 02:07 PM
Author: Bundit Thanachaisethavut, Dr.Voravith Charoenlert & Suntaree Saeng-ging
Publishing Date:
2008
Category: Research
Asia Monitor Resource Centre, 2008 - Review of the situation and mechanisms of labour administration, labour law and the informal economy in Thailand.
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Jan 09, 2011 03:33 PM
Author: Journal of Industrial Relations
Publishing Date:
2008
Category: Research
Journal of Industrial Relations November 2008, 50: 779-795 -
This article provides an account of industrial relations in Laos, in light of the transformation theory from the industrial relations literature. The scope of the article is limited to employment in the formal, wage-earning sector of the civilian economy. The article argues that the history of industrial relations in Laos can be divided into four eras: the French colonial era (1890s to 1947); the Royal Lao Government era (1947—1975); the first decade or so of the Lao People's Democratic Republic following the communist revolution in 1975; and the contemporary reform era under the New Economic Mechanism (1986 to the present). Following the transformation literature, the article argues that these four eras were divided by three transformations: the first of these, from the colonial to Royal Lao Government regime, was incremental or gradual; the second and third were cases of discontinuous change. The first and third of the transformations, to some extent, are `controversial'.
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Jul 24, 2011 02:13 PM
Author: Van Thu Ha
Publishing Date:
2008
Category: Research
Asia Monitor Resource Centre, 2008 - Review of the situation and mechanisms of labour administration, labour law and the informal economy in Vietnam.
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Jul 24, 2011 01:43 PM
Author: Pallavi Mansingh
Publishing Date:
2008
Category: Research
Asia Monitor Resource Centre, 2008 - Review of the situation and mechanisms of labour administration, labour law and the informal economy in India.
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Aug 02, 2011 11:51 AM
Author: John Buchanan and Gillian Considine
Publishing Date:
2008
Category: Research
Workplace Research Centre (University of Sydney), 2008 - The significance of minimum wages for the broader wage-setting environment depends on many factors. Prime among these are the degree of inclusiveness of the industrial relations (IR) system in which it is embedded. This determines how extensively wage outcomes of ‘the strong’ are extended to ‘the weak’. It is commonly assumed that over the last two decades Australia has moved from a highly centralised and regulated IR system pre-occupied with fairness to one which is now highly decentralised and ‘deregulated’ concerned primarily with productivity. This narrative both overstates the degree of centralisation in the past and, most importantly, under-states the degree of informal or tacit coordination in the present. The paper presents new and detailed statistics on this latter point. These show that the reach of awards in the wage determination process is far higher (at about 80 per cent of employees) than is commonly recognised. In assessing the significance of minimum wages for the broader environment it is important to recognise that much turns on the level at which minimum award rates are set. While they are taken as a reference point for wage determination for the bulk of employees, their impact varies depending on a range of other factors. The paper concludes by highlighting the priority issues needing further analysis if the significance of minimum wages for the broader wage-setting environment is to be better understood.
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Jul 24, 2011 02:22 PM
Author: Azra Sayeed
Publishing Date:
2008
Category: Research
Asia Monitor Resource Centre, 2008 - Review of the situation and mechanisms of labour administration, labour law and the informal economy in Pakistan.
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Jul 13, 2011 02:59 PM
Author: IFWEA
Publishing Date:
2008
Category: Training Material
International Federation of Workers' Education Associations, 2008 - This training of trainers manual is a guide for worker educators to use in training and planning for: (i) trade union organising in the informal economy and (ii) for building democratic organisation among worker activists in the informal economy.
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Jun 15, 2011 03:16 PM
Author: Reynald Bourque
Publishing Date:
2008
Category: Research
Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, Volume 12, Spring 2008 - This article emphasizes the contribution of International Framework Agreements (IFAs) to collective bargaining within multinational companies (MNC). For this purpose, we used various data, including content analysis of 42 IFAs and interviews with representatives of the five Global Union Federations (GUFs) involved in the negotiation of these IFAs, in order to assess the content and efficiency of these agreements.
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Oct 01, 2011 01:33 PM
Author: KAMBAYASHI Ryo
Publishing Date:
2008
Category: Research
Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) Discussion Paper Series 08-J-021, 2008 - When the Japanese economy went into recession in the 1990s, the number of employees dismissed by companies increased dramatically while the ratio of disputes over dismissals, in the form of labor action and lawsuits, has been in continuous decline since that time. It is true that overall the ratio of lawsuits in relation to the number of dismissals has increased since 2002, but this is because of the reduced cost of access to judicial resources owing to the opening of labor consultation service centers, and not because of any disturbance to legal norms. Thus, looking at dismissal disputes, the case law, particularly in regard to unfair dismissals, has been securely established and continues to provide a stable social norm in the Japanese labor markets. It is important to notice that many of the dismissal cases have been contended as class actions, and collective bargaining has provided the key mechanism of case law for dismissals in Japan. Therefore when we find the relative number of labor lawsuits filed by individuals increasing, as opposed to collective labor action, we have to be cautious that it is not clear what kind of role collective bargaining is playing here. Although current labor laws and regulations depend largely on establishing social norms based upon collective bargaining, studying the course of disputes over dismissals may enable us to present points of discussion with regard to the form that collective bargaining should take.
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Jan 06, 2011 01:13 PM
Author: ILO
Publishing Date:
2008
Category: Policy
ILO Report, 2008 - Country baselines under the ILO Declaration Annual Review (2000-2008): Freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining (FACB).
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