This book provides in-depth interpretation of the crucial international Labour Organisation (ILO) instruments-Constitutions, conventions, declarations, resolutions, and recommendations - as well as such other sources of law as the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and various model and actual corporate codes of conduct. Among the substantive areas of labour law covered in this book are the following:
- standards on industrial relations
- the relationship between international labour law and economic competition
- collective bargaining
- protection of trade unions
- prohibitions on enforced and child labour
- promotion of equal opportunity and treatment
The presentation demonstrates that these rules and standards, notwithstanding their much-maligned intrinsic legal force, do in fact offer invaluable benchmarks to governments, judiciaries, employers, and trade unions.