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The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law Cases and Materials, 2nd Edition

The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law Cases and Materials, Second Edition

The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law Cases and Materials, 2nd Edition

Author: Roger Blanpain; Susan Bisom-Rapp; William R. Corbett; Hilary K. Josephs; Michael J. Zimmer
Publisher: Aspen Legal Education
ISBN: 9781454815662
Published In: March 2012
Format: Hardback , 1032 pages
Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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The first casebook covering both international and comparative labor and employment law is characterized by its authorship by prolific, respected scholars, all of whom have taught law outside the United States. A solid conceptual framework compares national laws dealing with individual collective employment rights, including antidiscrimination law and privacy law, and considers the systems used to resolve labor and employment disputes in the context of international labor law. A sweeping coverage of international labor law considers the International Labour Organization, NAFTA and other bilateral trade agreements that include labor standards, and the European Union. In addition, The Global Workplace explores transnational corporations’ self-regulatory efforts (or codes of conduct,) and the mechanisms for pursuing international labor standards in United States courts. Comparisons are drawn among the laws of the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, Japan and India. Exploring the similarities and the differences among various approaches to the employment relationship allows students to better understand and evaluate the approach each country takes, and helps them develop a normative approach to labor and employment law. National legal materials are presented within historical and cultural context. A Teachers Manual and Website provides background information for the material in the casebook, answers to questions and problems in the text, additional problems, sample syllabi, exams, and PowerPoint slides.

Hallmark features of The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law:

• First casebook covering both international and comparative labor and employment law

• Authorship

o prolific, respected scholars

o all of the authors have taught law outside the United States

• Conceptual framework

o compares national laws dealing with individual collective employment rights

o including antidiscrimination law and privacy law

o considers the systems used to resolve labor and employment disputes in the context of international labor law

• Broad coverage of international labor law

o International Labour Organization

o NAFTA and other bilateral trade agreements that include labor standards

o the European Union

o comparison of the laws of the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, Japan and India

o transnational corporations’ self-regulatory efforts (or codes of conduct)

o mechanisms for pursuing international labor standards in United States courts

• Explores the similarities and the differences among various approaches to the employment relationship

o allows students to better understand and evaluate the approach each country takes

o helps develop a normative approach to labor and employment law

o national legal materials are contextualized with historical and cultural issues

• Teachers Manual and Website

o background information establishing the context for the material in the casebook

o answers to questions and problems

o additional problems

o sample syllabi

o exams

o PowerPoint slides and other aids to excellent teaching

Part I. Employment Law in the International Realm

Ch. 1. The Study of International and Comparative Employment Law

Ch. 2. The International Labor Organization and International Labor Standards

Part II. Employment Law in North America

Ch. 3. The United States

Ch. 4. Canada

Ch. 5. Mexico

Ch. 6. The Labor Standards of NAFTA and Other Free Trade Agreements

Part III. Employment Law in the European Union

Ch. 7. The European Union

Ch. 8. The United Kingdom

Ch. 9. Germany

Ch. 10. France

Part IV. Employment Law in Asia

Ch. 11. China

Ch. 12. Japan

Ch. 13. India

Part V. Strategies for Obtaining Humane Working Conditions

Ch. 14. Pursuing International Labor Standards in U.S. Courts and Through Global Codes of Conduct

Prof. Dr. Roger Blanpain.

Is professor emeritus of the Faculty of Laws of the Catholic University of Leuven,   Belgium. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Florida, Georgia (USA),   Insead (France), Kentucky, Michigan State (USA), Paris (France), and Sophia (Japan).

At present he is a professor at the Universities of Hasselt and KUBrussel, Belgium and   the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands; and is a member of the Flemish Royal   Academy (1992-).

He has been Dean of the Leuven Faculty of Laws (1984-1988), is Past President of the   International Industrial Relations Association (1986-1989), and has been a member of the Belgian Senate (1987-1989). He is a doctor honoris causa of the University of Szeged, Hungary (1997). He is also Past-President of the International Society of Labour Law and Social Security.

Professor Blanpain is also the editor of the International Encyclopaedia of Labour Law and Industrial Relations 1975 and general editor of the International Encyclopaedia of Laws ( more than 1200 collaborators worldwide), the Bulletin of Comparative Labour Law and of the book Comparative Labour Law and Industrial relations (9th ed. 2007).