Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Labor & Employment

A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights. Spanning the twentieth century, the book tracks the rise and fall of women-only state protective laws--such as maximum hour laws, minimum wage laws, and night work laws--from their roots in progressive reform through the passage of New Deal labor law to the feminist attack on single-sex protective laws in the 1960s and 1970s.

Nancy Woloch considers the network of institutions that...

The continuum of exploitation that has historically defined the everyday of domestic work - exclusion from employment and social security standards and precarious migration status has frequently been neglected. It is primarily the moments of crisis, incidents of human trafficking, slavery or forced labour, that have captured the attention of human rights law. Only recently has human rights law has begun to address the structured inequalities and exclusions that define the domain of domestic work.

This book addresses the specific position of domestic workers in the context of...

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this monograph on the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises not only describes and analyses the legal aspects of labour relations, but also examines labour relations practices and developing trends. It provides a survey of the subject that is both usefully brief and sufficiently detailed to answer most questions likely to arise in any pertinent legal setting.

Both individual and collective labour relations are covered in ample detail, with attention to such underlying and pervasive factors as...

This title was first published in 2001. Detailed interviews with activists and case studies of decision-making bodies show how different membership groups exploit equal opportunities strategies to facilitate or impede women. These case studies expose the conundrum of understanding women as a differentiated but distinct membership group. They illustrate why women activists need to be understood in their diverse and multiple roles of being low paid workers, black women, lesbians and members of political parties, but also demonstrate that women are most empowered when treated as an oppressed...

Das essential gibt einen Uberblick uber die unterschiedlichen Aufenthaltstitel und -statuten sowie uber die Auswirkungen dieser Differenzierungen auf die Beschaftigung von Fluchtlingen. Es werden mogliche Problemfelder in den jeweiligen Phasen eines Beschaftigungsverhaltnisses aufgezeigt und die arbeitsrechtlichen Instrumente zur ihrer praxisorientierten Handhabung vorgestellt. Soweit es bei der Beschaftigung von Fluchtlingen zu sozialversicherungs- und steuerrechtlichen Besonderheiten kommt, werden diese beleuchtet. Fur die zweite Auflage wurden insbesondere die Neuerungen des...