The Global Workplace : International and Comparative Employment Law - Cases and Materials

Acknowledgments xi Table of Cases xiii Table of Statutes xxi Table of Secondary Authorities xxxiii The Study of International and Comparative Employment Law 1(52) Introduction 1(31) Thinking Deeply About International and Comparative Employment Law 32(9) Workplace Law in the International Realm: An Initial Primer 41(10) The Organization of this Book 51(2) The International Labour Organization and International Labor Standards 53(39) Introduction 53(5) ILO Standard Setting and Structure 58(2) ILO Monitoring and Member Nation Compliance 60(28) The 1998 Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work 88(4) The United States 92(65) Introduction 92(1) Individual Employment Law 93(17) Unions and Collective Bargaining 110(12) Wages, Hours, and Benefits 122(2) Employment Discrimination 124(25) Privacy 149(8) Canada 157(51) Introduction 157(3) Individual Employment Law 160(11) Unions and Collective Bargaining 171(14) Wages, Hours, and Benefits 185(1) Antidiscrimination Law 186(11) Employee Privacy 197(1) Dispute Resolution Systems 198(10) Mexico 208(41) Introduction 208(14) Individual Employment Law 222(5) Collective Employee Rights 227(6) Dispute Resolution Systems 233(14) Antidiscrimination Law 247(1) Privacy Law 248(1) The Regulatory Approach of the North American Free Trade Agreement 249(27) Introduction 249(7) The NAALC's Labor Principles 256(2) NAALC Structures and Enforcement 258(18) The European Union 276(56) General Overview 276(3) The Legislative Process 279(3) The Social Partners 282(1) Competence of the EU Regarding Social Policies: In Search of a European Social Model (ESM) -- A Dream? 283(5) Individual Employment Law 288(13) Collective Employment Rights 301(14) Antidiscrimination Law 315(10) Privacy 325(7) The United Kingdom 332(62) Introduction 332(2) Individual Employment Law: Contracts and Statutes 334(25) Unions and Collective Bargaining 359(8) Wages, Hours, and Benefits 367(3) Employment Discrimination 370(22) Privacy 392(2) Germany 394(38) Introduction 394(4) Individual Employment 398(6) Unions and Collective Bargaining 404(18) Antidiscrimination 422(7) Labor Courts 429(1) Privacy 430(2) France 432(30) Introduction 432(4) Individual Employment 436(12) Unions and Collective Bargaining 448(5) Wages, Hours, and Benefits 453(2) Employment Discrimination 455(3) Privacy 458(4) China 462(62) Introduction 462(9) Socialist Modernization and Liberation of the Productive Forces 471(8) The Labor Law 479(30) Collective Contracts and the Trade Union 509(9) Opening to the Outside: Special Economic Zones and Brain Circulation 518(6) Japan 524(42) Introduction to the Social and Historical Context 524(2) The Postwar Employment Scene: Major Developments 526(16) Japanese Transplant Companies in the United States 542(24) India 566(24) Introduction to the Historical and Social Context 566(2) Economic Policy and Performance Before and After 1991 568(8) Labor and Trade Unions 576(2) ``Equal Opportunities'' for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes 578(2) Judicial Activism and Public Interest Litigation 580(10) Pursuing International Labor Standards in U.S. Courts and Through Global Codes of Conduct 590(29) Introduction 590(1) Common Law Actions 591(10) Global Codes of Conduct 601(6) Lawsuits Based on Statutes 607(12) Index 619