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Labour Law And Triangular Employment Growth, Timothy John Bartkiw Oct 2014

Labour Law And Triangular Employment Growth, Timothy John Bartkiw

LLM Theses

This thesis is concerned with understanding the relationship between labour law and triangular employment growth, and particularly in "staffing services" contexts. A review of alternative explanations for growth in triangular employment within three theoretical paradigm (neoclassical, institutionalist, and critical) illustrates the theoretical space for conceiving of a relationship between the particularities of labour law and triangular employment growth. To this end, the thesis develops the concept of a regulatory differential, or ways in which a legal regime may produce differential regulatory effects as between direct and triangular forms of employment. A typology of regulatory differentials is outlined. Further, a discussion …


Who Made That?: Influencing Foreign Labour Practices Through Reflexive Domestic Disclosure Regulation, David J. Doorey Oct 2005

Who Made That?: Influencing Foreign Labour Practices Through Reflexive Domestic Disclosure Regulation, David J. Doorey

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

An important tool of "decentred" regulation, including reflexive law, is corporate information disclosure. Disclosure regulation can have an important normative influence on corporate behaviour because it introduces a risk element that must be managed by corporate leaders. The challenge for regulators is to identify the scope of disclosure that will cause corporate responses of the sort desired by the state. This article considers the potential role of disclosure regulation as a tool for influencing labour practices beyond the borders of the regulating state and, in particular, within the vast global supply chains of multinational corporations. In the context of improving …