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After 'Subsistence Work': Labour Commodification And Social Justice In The Household Workplace, Liam Mchugh-Russell

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

In this book, leading international thinkers take up the demanding challenge to rethink our understanding of social justice at work and our means for achieving it – at a time when global forces are tearing the familiar fabric of our working lives and the laws regulating them. When fabric is torn we can see deeply into it, understand its structural weaknesses, and imagine alterations in the name of resilience and sustainability. Seizing that opportunity, the authoritative commentators examine the lessons revealed by the pandemic and other global shocks for our ideas about justice at work, and how to advance that …

An Automation Tax- Adopt With Caution, Vincent Ooi

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The post highlights three main issues that may result from the rapid and widespread automation of jobs: 1) declining tax revenues; 2) inequitable distribution of gains and losses from automation; and 3) social costs of job displacement, such as social support and retraining programmes for displaced workers.An automation tax may be imposed on a temporary basis to manage (slow) the rate of displacement of workers due to the adoption of automation technologies, but should not be a permanent feature. Otherwise, there will be a risk of loss of competitiveness in the long-term, possibly resulting in even greater economic harm.One main …

Unifying The Field: Mapping The Relationship Between Work Law Regimes In Ontario, Then And Now, Claire Mumme

Dalhousie Law Journal

Since the mid-20th century in Canada, labour and employment law have been treated as two separate but related fields. In 1981 Brian Langille argued in “Labour Law is a Subset of Employment Law” for the unification of the fields, so that all forms of waged work were understood as matters of public policy, rather than leaving some types of work to private law regulation. Taking up Langille’s argument, this paper argues that employment contracts, individual and collective, are structured through the overlap, interaction and gaps between work law regimes. The creation of a unified field moves from studying the regimes …

If Labour Law Is A Subset Of Employment Law, What Is Employment Law A Subset Of?, Brian A. Langille

Dalhousie Law Journal

An academic life lived over decades can provide real rewards. One is thinking about a subject, such as labour law, over a significant period. Such longer-term speculation can lead to interesting questions—such as, what makes labour law a subject anyway? A second advantage of academic seniority is the opportunity to sustain longer-term relationships with other scholars. Both the temporal and personal advantages are joined here because four leading labour law scholars whom I have known for a (sometimes very long) while, have written about an essay that I wrote forty years ago. This essay is my effort to join them …

Employment Law Revisited, Mark Freedland

Dalhousie Law Journal

This critique of Brian Langille’s famous “Subset” article considers the historical and current meaning of “employment law” in Canada and in the UK. In Canada, “employment law” was fashioned by Innis Christie in the 1980s as the law of personal work relations for the non-unionized sector, with “labour law” applying to the unionized sector of the economy. In the UK, “individual employment law” appeared in the 1970s to be a distinct discipline; but since that time it has largely re-merged with labour law, with the terms “employment law” and “labour law” becoming virtually synonymous. An enlarged scope is proposed for …

“Labour Law Is A Subset Of Employment Law” Revisited, Alan Bogg

Dalhousie Law Journal

This article revisits the arguments in Brian Langille’s seminal law review article, “Labour Law is a Subset of Employment Law.” Langille’s article was based upon two main claims: (a) that (individual) employment law should be understood as the “set” and (collective) labour law the “subset” of employment law (the primacy of employment law); (b) that “public values” have priority over “private values” in the regulation of work (the primacy of public values). These two claims were presented as mutually reinforcing in “Subset.” Drawing on specific examples from UK and Canadian law, this article endorses the first claim but rejects the …

Labour Law As A Subset Of Employment Law? Up-Dating Langille’S Insights With A Capabilities Approach, Bruce P. Archibald

Dalhousie Law Journal

Brian Langille’s influential 1981 article entitled “Labour Law is a Subset of Employment Law” is evaluated in the light of changes in the economic, social and political context since its publication and the shifts in the appropriate normative underpinnings for such an exercise. Langille’s conceptually radical original version of a unified field for legal governance of the workplace, rooted in liberal constitutional principles, has been accepted in the interim by many. However, four decades later, this schema is no longer an adequate basis for responding to challenges for achieving fairness and justice in a world of precarious employment, globally organized …

Foreword, Table Of Contents & Introduction

Dalhousie Law Journal

Labour Law versus Employment Law in the UK and Canada: A Brian Langille Legacy

The special segment in this Volume 43, which is devoted to an exercise in comparative labour, is the brain-child of Alan Bogg and Mark Freedland. Both were at Oxford University in 2016, thinking about the up-coming third conference of the Labour Law Research Network (LLRN) in Toronto, which was scheduled for summer of 2017. (Alan is now at Bristol.) They thought it would be interesting to explore distinctions between labour law and employment law in both Canada and the United Kingdom, where the notions have different …

Taxation Of Automation And Artificial Intelligence As A Tool Of Labour Policy, Vincent Ooi, Glendon Goh

Centre for AI & Data Governance

Rapid developments in automation technology pose a risk of massdisplacement of human labour, resulting in the need to support and retraindisplaced workers (a negative externality). We propose an “automation tax”that would slow the adoption of automation technology in appropriatecircumstances, giving workers and social support systems time to adapt. Thiscould be easily implemented through changes to the existing schedular systemof depreciation/ capital allowances, reducing the uncertainty of its applicationand implementation costs. Such a system would be flexible enough to keepup with rapid technological developments. Two main dimensions may beadjusted to produce intended distortionary effects: 1) accelerated depreciation,and 2) bonus depreciation. While …

Regulation And Business Behavior, Neil Gunningham, Robert Kagan

Robert Kagan

Presents an introduction to various articles and issues discussed in the April 1, 2005 issue of the journal "Law and Policy."

Shall Wagnerism Have No Dominion?, Eric Tucker

Eric M. Tucker

The Wagner Act Model has formed the basis of Canada’s collective bargaining regime since World War II but has come under intense scrutiny in recent years because of legislative weakening of collective bargaining rights, constitutional litigation defending collective bargaining rights and declining union density. This article examines and assesses these developments, arguing that legislatively we have not witnessed a wholesale attack on Wagnerism, but rather a selective weakening of some of its elements. In the courts, it briefly appeared as if the judiciary might constitutionalize meaningful labour rights and impede the erosion of Wagnerism, but recent judicial case law suggests …

تطــور المنظــور القانونــي للعمــل مــن السلعــة إلــى القيمــة: دراســة في المفاهيــم الاقتصاديــة و السياسيــة و الاتفاقــات الدوليــة المتعلقة بقيمــة العمــل و أثرهــا في التشريــع الكويتـي الوطنــي - قانون العمل رقم 6 لسنة 2010, Mashael Alhajeri

Mashael Alhajeri

The Genesis of the Legal Perception to Labour Law: From Commodity to Value

A Study in the Economic and Political Conceptions and the International Conventions Related to Labour Value and their Impact to the National Kuwaiti Legislation (Labour Law No. 6/2010)

Alhajeri, Mashael A. Kuwait Unversity mashael.alhajeri@ku.edu.kw

The protective stance of contemporary labour law is based on a bipartite legislative position, where two perspectives to labour compete; a ‘commodity’ perspective that regards labour as a mere factor (input) of production, and a ‘value’ perspective that elevates is to an honorary, morally-charged rank.

This bilateral view to labour casts its shadow …

Workplace Harassment: A Cross-Jurisdictional Comparative Analysis Of Legislative Responses To This Workplace Phenomenon In Canada, Kayla Alice Carr

LLM Theses

This thesis investigates different statutory models Canadian legislatures have enacted to address workplace harassment. It adopts a qualitative, comparative case study approach, providing an in-depth comparative analysis of legislation from Québec, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia. Through this analysis, this thesis outlines the ways in which workplace harassment has been regulated in Canada, why that model was adopted by the jurisdiction and how that model measures against other models for legislating workplace harassment. Through an examination of existing literature relating to workplace harassment stemming from three theoretical paradigms and an analysis of a model legislative framework, this thesis creates …

Protecting The Seafarer: An Insight On The Maritime Labour Convention, Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry

Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry

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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 …

The Extent Of The Right To Strike In Nigerian Labour Law, Christian Chizindu Wigwe Ph.D

Christian Chizindu Wigwe Ph.D

A treatment of the fundamental rights to freedom of expression and of movement and the rights to peaceful assembly and association cannot be exhaustive without a thorough insight into the right of organized labour to picket or mount pressure with a view to currying favours. This is because all over the world, the right of labour to picket vis-à-vis the need to maintain peace, law and order has been a contentious constitutional issue. This paper examines the right of workers to embark on strike and the place of law in regulating issues of strike. It takes the view that there …

Child Labour In India, Mubashshir Sarshar

Mubashshir Sarshar

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The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006: A Legal Primer To An Emerging International Regime, Co-Authored With Dr Moiram Mcconnell And Dominick Devlin, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, May 2011., Moira L. Mcconnell, Dominick Devlin, Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry

Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry

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المساعــي التشريعيــة نحــو توطيــن العمــل في دولــة الكويــت, Mashael Alhajeri

Mashael Alhajeri

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Extending The Scope Of Application Of Labour Laws To The Informal Economy”, Digest Of Comments Of The Ilo Supervisory Bodies Related To The Informal Economy, Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry

Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry

No abstract provided.

Derogations And Restrictions On The Right To Strike Under International Law: The Case Of Nigeria, O. V. C. Okene

Dr. O. V. C. OKene

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Building The Momentum For The Ilo’S Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry

Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry

No abstract provided.

The Implementation Of Laws Relating To Trade Union In Different Industries And Establishments: A Case Study Of Bangladesh, Zafrin Andaleeb, Abu Noman Mohammad Atahar Ali

Abu Noman Mohammad Atahar Ali

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The Status Of The Right To Strike In Nigeria: A Perspective From International And Comparative Law, O. V. C. Okene

Dr. O. V. C. OKene

No abstract provided.

The Right To Strike In A Democratic Society: The Case Of Nigeria, O. V. C. Okene

Dr. O. V. C. OKene

No abstract provided.

The Future Of Standards Supervision: Reconciling Development And Adjustment, Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry

Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry

No abstract provided.

How Biometrics Helps The Seafarer And World Trade, Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry

Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry

No abstract provided.

Prescriptive Standards Give Way To Principles, Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry

Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry

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The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 Consolidates Seafarers’ Labour Instruments, Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, D. Devlin, Moira Mcconnell

Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry

No abstract provided.

Free Trade Agreements And Labour Rights: Recent Developments, Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, Eric Gravel

Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry

No abstract provided.