Labour standards play crucial role in protecting the interests of workers both at the national and international levels. As workers are by far weaker parties in labour relationship, setting a minimum threshold, beyond which acting is prohibited, has been considered as an important means to protect workers. The need to ensure workers' safety, freedom and dignity, and the quest for the promotion of peace and economic efficiency call for protective labour standards. In this book the author examines selected labour standards under the Ethiopian law in light of the ILO Conventions, the OECD...