Half-title page -- The International Labour Organization -- Title page -- Copyright information -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Table of cases -- Table of legislation -- 1 Labour law at a crossroads -- Labour law's origins and influences -- Sources of labour law -- Constitutions -- Statutory regulations -- Collective agreements -- International law -- Case law -- The labour law model from 1945 to 1975 -- The standard employment relationship -- Worldwide changes and the emergence of a new work paradigm -- The labour flexibility debate and the spread of atypical employment -- International competition -- Technological change and the emergence of post-Fordist organizational patterns -- The end of the Cold War -- Current crises in labour law -- 2 Who is protected by labour law? -- Labour law and the informal economy -- Towards a legal definition of the 'informal economy' -- Policy issues -- Atypical work: from rejection to integration in labour law -- Dependent-independent workers and the 'defocusing' of the employment relationship -- Disguised employment relationships -- Decentralization of production and its impact on labour and employment relations: who is an employer? -- The challenges of outsourcing for labour law -- 3 Security of employment -- Unfair dismissal: a controversial issue -- An increasing number of exceptions to unfair dismissal protection -- Limitations on the abuse of fixed-term employment contracts -- How effective are remedies for unfair dismissal? -- Notice provision and procedural safeguards -- Appeal and recourse -- 4 Global trade and labour law -- Is substandard labour a legitimate comparative advantage? -- Strategies to address the relationship between international trade and labour rights -- International and supranational rules -- Harmonization -- The social clause: from WTO to ILO.

The ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, 1998 -- Labour-related provisions in multilateral and bilateral trade agreements -- North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation -- DR-CAFTA -- Other agreements in the Americas -- Unilateral social clauses: the Generalized System of Preferences -- United States-Cambodia bilateral textile agreement -- Corporate social responsibility (CSR) -- Corporate codes of conduct -- Framework agreements -- NGOs' social responsibility standards -- ISO standards -- Pros and cons of CSR initiatives -- 5 Legal subordination and the fundamental rights of the person: an uneasy cohabitation at the workplace -- Human rights and non-specific workers' rights -- Gender discrimination -- Equal pay -- Exceptions to the equal pay rule -- Equal treatment of men and women -- Access to certain jobs -- Pregnancy -- Night work, underground work and other jobs prohibited for women -- Racial discrimination -- Religious belief -- Other kinds of discrimination -- Family responsibilities -- Sexual harassment -- Sexual orientation -- Age -- Disability -- State of health and HIV/AIDS -- Affirmative (or positive) action -- Protection of privacy -- Video and telephone surveillance -- Freedom of thought and expression -- 6 Regional perspectives -- The European Union -- The emergence of a supranational labour law -- The impact of certain recent ECJ rulings on labour relations in the European Union -- Labour law in former communist countries -- Labour law and transition -- Social dialogue in the post-communist states -- Latin America -- The development of labour law in Latin America -- Democracy, economic liberalization and labour law reforms -- Asia and the Pacific -- The Australian model of industrial relations -- Major labour law reforms in New Zealand -- Challenges to traditional labour models in Japan.

Recent developments across Asia and the Pacific -- South Africa -- Labour law and industrial relations under apartheid -- Post-apartheid reforms and the Labour Relations Act -- Regulating working conditions -- Discrimination and unfair dismissal -- Redefining the employment relationship -- A model for southern Africa -- 7 Final remarks -- Bibliography -- Index -- Tables -- 2.1 UNIZO criterion points -- 4.1 Ratification of the ILO fundamental Conventions by G8 countries, plus Brazil, China and India -- 6.1 Ratification of ILO Conventions by Latin American countries -- 6.2 Ratification of ILO Conventions on fundamental human rights in Latin America -- Boxes -- 1.1 Varieties of flexicurity -- 1.2 Atypical work in the United States -- 1.3 Wage protection for temporarily laid-off workers: the Cassa Integrazione Guadagn -- 1.4 An ILO view on Doing Business: The Employing Workers Indicator (EWI) -- 2.1 Definitions of the informal economy -- 2.2 Recommendations to extend national labour legislation to informal women workers in India -- 2.3 From rejection to recognition of private placement andtemporary work: the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181), and Recommendation (No.188) -- 2.4 The conversion of dependent employment relationships in the self-employed provision of services -- 2.5 Ireland: Code of practice for determining employment or self-employment status of individuals -- 2.6 Judicial redress when an employment relationship has beendisguised under the form of a civil contract of services -- 2.7 Economically dependent workers -- 2.8 The ILO Employment Relationship Recommendation, 2006 (No. 198) -- 2.9 Workers hired through a labour cooperative -- 2.10 The representation of temporary workers under the US National Labor Relations Act -- 3.1 The role and effects of employment protection regulation (EPL).

3.2 Annulment of a dismissal and reinstatement with backpay is the appropriate remedy for a discriminatory dismissal -- 4.1 Gabrielle Defrennev. Société Anonyme Belge de Navigation Aérienne (Sabena) -- Box 4.2 The economic and moral dimension of labour laws -- 4.3 Ministerial Declaration of the WTO -- 4.4 ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work -- 4.5 Two complaints submitted against Canada under NAALC -- 4.6 User's Guide to the European Union's Scheme of Generalized Tariff Preferences -- 4.7 Making labour standards work: the need for increasing cooperation between private stakeholders and the State -- 4.8 IKEA's IWAY Standard -- 4.9 A Summary of SA8000 elements -- 5.1 Understanding and proving discrimination -- 5.2 Job evaluation methods free from gender bias: an effective tool to achieve pay equity -- 5.3 An absolute prohibition on the employment of women in diving work infringes the equal treatment rule -- 5.4 The prohibition of night work by women vis-à-vis EC law -- 5.5 Lockheed Martin to pay 2.5 million to settle racial harassment lawsuit -- 5.6 Discrimination on the grounds of religion. A decision by the Constitutional Court of Peru -- 5.7 Discrimination on the grounds of religion -- 5.8 Discrimination on the grounds of employee lifestyle -- 5.9 United States: Fines imposed on employers who have failed to take measures to stop sexual harassment -- 5.10 Age discrimination: Werner Mangold v. Rüdiger Helm -- 5.11 Reasonable accommodation for disabled persons -- 5.12 Refusal to hire a job applicant on the grounds of HIV-positive status constitutes discrimination -- 5.13 Affirmative action policies in Italy -- 5.14 Protection of workers' personal data: an ILO code of practice -- 5.15 Canada: Video surveillance not admissible under federal privacy legislation.

5.16 The interception of telephone conversations made from an employee's workplace: Halfordv.United Kingdom -- 6.1 Other relevant European standards in the field of labour law -- 6.2 The principle of subsidiarity in EC law -- 6.3 The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union -- 6.4 Rewards to 'deserving employees' in the Russian Federation -- 6.5 The position of the former Central and Eastern European countries vis-à-vis international law -- 6.6 Labour law reform under the dictatorship of Pinochet (1973-90) and under democratic rule (1990 onwards), Chile -- Box 6.7 Australia's Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005.