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Children, Chocolate, And Profits: A Policy-Oriented Analysis Of Child Labor And The Chocolate Industry Giants, Ann W. Deam
Children, Chocolate, And Profits: A Policy-Oriented Analysis Of Child Labor And The Chocolate Industry Giants, Ann W. Deam
Intercultural Human Rights Law Review
In 2001, the chocolate industry adopted the Harkin-Engel Protocol, also referred to as the Chocolate Industry Protocol, in which it "publicly acknowledged the problem of forced child labor" with a promise to "commit significant resources to address it" and ensure that "cocoa beans and their derivative products have been grown and/or processed without any of the worst forms of child labor." The noble goals set forth in this voluntary, self-regulating agreement were to be attained by 2005. Twenty years have passed since the signing of the Chocolate Industry Protocol (CIP). The purpose of this paper is to determine the effectiveness …
Fundamental Labour Standards And Corporate Sustainability: An Analysis Of The Regulatory Framework Of Core Workers' Rights And Its Integration In Contemporary International Business, S J. Rombouts, A J.F Lafarre
Fundamental Labour Standards And Corporate Sustainability: An Analysis Of The Regulatory Framework Of Core Workers' Rights And Its Integration In Contemporary International Business, S J. Rombouts, A J.F Lafarre
Intercultural Human Rights Law Review
The core of international protection of workers' rights is made up of the Fundamental Labour Standards that were developed in the framework of the International Labour Organization (ILO). These standards, included in the eight fundamental conventions of the ILO are part of public international law, but are also incorporated into a large number of other - public, private, binding and voluntary - instruments that regulate international corporate behavior and form the basis for worker protection in international corporate social responsibility mechanisms. Fundamental Labour Standards (FLS) aim to secure respect for the prohibition of child labour, the prohibition of forced labour, …
Doing Well By Being Good: How U.S. Labor Law Encourages Employer Good Faith Behavior, Douglas E. Ray
Doing Well By Being Good: How U.S. Labor Law Encourages Employer Good Faith Behavior, Douglas E. Ray
Intercultural Human Rights Law Review
This essay will discuss ways in which that duty of good faith bargaining is enforced and how a series of decisions by the courts and the National Labor Relations Board designed to increase employer power and flexibility have inadvertently encouraged and compelled employers to bargain in good faith by conditioning use of their most powerful weapons on their participation in good faith bargaining. The presence of economic weapons held in reserve is a powerful negotiating lever and an employer which has forfeited the ability to use weapons such a permanent striker replacement, lockout, and unilateral change will have substantially less …