The Australian Charter of Employment Rights: The missing dimensions [PDF]
, 2008 Just prior to the 2007 General Election, a group of labour lawyers and economists, broadly sympathetic to the Labor Party, produced a Charter of Employment Rights.
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Medical interpreting and the law in the European Union [PDF]
, 2012 In 2011, the Danish government announced that from June that year it would no longer cover the costs of medical interpreters for patients who had been living in Denmark for more than seven years.
Phelan, Mary
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The chilling effect and the most ancient form of vengeance:discrimination and victimising third parties [PDF]
, 2011 The recent Equality Act 2010 includes a revised definition of “victimisation”, which (in the Act’s most litigated field of employment) prohibits employers from victimising workers who use the legislation.
Connolly, Michael
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Collaboration between unions in a multi-union, non-exclusive bargaining regime: What can Canada learn from New Zealand? [PDF]
, 2012 The Canadian union certification system guarantees workers rights to organise, bargain collectively, and strike only when a majority of co-workers favours unionisation. This contravenes International Labour Organisation standards, in which the freedom to
Harcourt, Mark, Lam, Helen
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Towards a European Pillar of Social Rights: upgrading the EU social acquis. College of Europe Policy Brief #1.17, January 2017 [PDF]
, 2017 Executive Summary > The European Commission has recently launched a ‘European Pillar of Social Rights’. The Pillar consists of a broad range of social principles.
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Developing Effective Mechanisms for Implementing Labor Rights in the Global Economy [PDF]
, 2000 The paper explains that workers in different countries are not adversaries and no actual conflict of interest exists between them. It contends that a raise in global wages will benefit workers worldwide.
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Labour Rights in the FTAA [PDF]
, 2006 [Excerpt] Without an overall trade agreement containing stronger labour rights linkage than that of the NAALC model, advocates will have no central forum or mechanism for dealing with workers\u27 rights in the Americas.
Compa, Lance
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Human Rights of Migrants: The Dawn of a New Era? [PDF]
, 2010 The purpose of this article is to highlight a number of key legal and policy developments which have occurred since the turn of the twenty-first century and to reflect on how these have and may advance the protection of the human rights of migrants. This
Cholewinski, Ryszard
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Austerity and Human Rights Law: Towards a Rights-Based Approach to Austerity Policy, a Case Study of Greece [PDF]
, 2015 This Note analyzes the legal framework for the protection of the right to work under national and international laws, and the limitations for Greece regarding the implementation of austerity measures that result in causing retrogression in the enjoyment ...
Housos, Katerina
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The Historical Background of the Communist Manifesto [PDF]
, 1998 [Excerpt] The Manifesto of the Communist Party, published 150 years ago in London in February 1848, is one of the most influential and widely-read documents of the past two centuries. The historian A. J. P. Taylor (1967, p. 7) has called it a holy book,
Boyer, George R
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