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Maternity Rights: A Comparative View Of Mexico And The United States, Roberto Rosas
Maternity Rights: A Comparative View Of Mexico And The United States, Roberto Rosas
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice
Women play a large role in the workplace and require additional protection during pregnancy, childbirth, and while raising children. This article compares how Mexico and the United States have approached the issue of maternity rights and benefits. First, Mexico provides eighty-four days of paid leave to mothers, while the United States provides unpaid leave for up to twelve weeks. Second, Mexico allows two thirty-minute breaks a day for breastfeeding, while the United States allows a reasonable amount of time per day to breastfeed. Third, Mexico provides childcare to most federal employees, while the United States provides daycares to a small …
If Anti-Discrimination Laws Are On The Books, Then Why Do Women Not Sue? A Look Into The Almost Absent Gender Discrimination Litigation In Brazil, Cesar Zucatti Pritsch
If Anti-Discrimination Laws Are On The Books, Then Why Do Women Not Sue? A Look Into The Almost Absent Gender Discrimination Litigation In Brazil, Cesar Zucatti Pritsch
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
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Essay: Understanding Employment Discrimination Litigation In China Through The Notion Of "Rights Apathy", Sheera Chan, Mimi Zou
Essay: Understanding Employment Discrimination Litigation In China Through The Notion Of "Rights Apathy", Sheera Chan, Mimi Zou
Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review
The psycho-legal concept of “rights apathy” is developed in
this Essay as an underlying factor of the very low rate of
incidence of workplace discrimination lawsuits filed in China,
despite an increasingly elaborate legal framework “on paper”
and workers’ rising awareness of their legal rights under
anti-discrimination laws. “Rights apathy” is underpinned by the
notions of “frustration” and “learned helplessness,” depicting the
indifference of workers in exercising their legal rights before a
tribunal or court. A number of institutional problems, namely
defects in existing anti-discrimination provisions, judicial
practices, and contradictions in other laws, policies, and
practices, can contribute to the …
International Law - Employment Discrimination. Japanese Corporation Formed Under United States Law Must Comply With Terms Of Title Vii Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1964. Avagliano V. Sumitumo Shoji America, Inc., - U.S. -, 102 S. Ct. 2374 (1982)., Henry Cyrus
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
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Unlawful Discrimination In Employment--An Outline Of The European Community Rules And Case-Law, Julian Currall
Unlawful Discrimination In Employment--An Outline Of The European Community Rules And Case-Law, Julian Currall
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
The Jurisprudence Of Discrimination As Opposed To Simple Inequality In The International Civil Service, Brian D. Patterson
The Jurisprudence Of Discrimination As Opposed To Simple Inequality In The International Civil Service, Brian D. Patterson
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
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Sanctioned Abuses: The Case Of Migrant Domestic Workers, Nisha Varia
Sanctioned Abuses: The Case Of Migrant Domestic Workers, Nisha Varia
Human Rights Brief
No abstract provided.