The International Organization and Enforcement of Labor Standards
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Overview: What action should be taken by international community with regard to labor standards, how should this action be organized, and by what means should it be enforced? The purpose of this paper is to provide answers to these three questions. Taking the perspective of economic theory, the paper describes here a line of argument that supports the following overall approach to the international organization and enforcement of labor standards. First, the International Labor Organization (ILO) should tighten its focus to cover only labor issues that arise as a result of international humanitarian or political concerns. Second, the World Trade Organization (WTO) should take on labor standards issues as they relate to race-to-the-bottom/regulatory-chill concerns not by initiating direct negotiations over labor standards between its member governments. Third, no explicit links between the WTO and the ILO should be established for enforcement purposes, but the enforcement links already implicit between these two organizations as embodied in the non-violation nullification or impairment and renegotiation provisions of the WTO should be encouraged.
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Format: PDF | Size: 134KB | Date: May 2001 | Pages: 45
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