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Henner Gött Editor Labour Standards in International Economic Law Labour Standards in International Economic Law € Henner Gott Editor Labour Standards in International Economic Law Editor HennerG€ott Georg-August-UniversityG€ottingen InstituteofInternationalandEuropeanLaw G€ottingen,Germany ISBN978-3-319-69446-7 ISBN978-3-319-69447-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69447-4 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2018930022 ©SpringerInternationalPublishingAG2018 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpart of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation,broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,andtransmissionor informationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilar methodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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Printedonacid-freepaper ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbySpringerNature TheregisteredcompanyisSpringerInternationalPublishingAG Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland Preface Ensuring a decent level of worker protection in the globalized economy remains oneofthe central challenges ofeconomicglobalization.Thisprofoundly intricate issuewilllikelyremainunresolveduntilallitsaspectsareproperlyunderstood.The present volume assembles timely analyses, written by expert scholars and experi- enced practitioners, of the most pressing legal questions arising in the field. It bridges existing gaps between the different sub-fields of law and surpasses the boundaries of professional and epistemic communities, to foster a more compre- hensiveunderstandingoflabourstandardsininternationaleconomiclaw. Most contributions to this volume were inspired by presentations given at the G€ottingen Conference on Labour Standards in International Economic Law, con- vened on 1–2 October 2015 by the Institute of International and European Law’s Department of International Economic and Environmental Law in G€ottingen. Additional chapters on further important issues were included to round off the compilation. It is a keen pleasure to acknowledge all those who have made this volume possible.Firstandforemost,IwishtoexpressmysinceregratitudetoPeter-Tobias Stoll, whose expertise and unfailing and dedicated support have made both the conference and this volume possible. Special thanks are due to all the authors for their invaluable contributions to this book and to the conference. Furthermore, I wish to thank Mary Footer, Pablo Lazo Grandi, Inmaculada Martı´nez-Zarzoso, FrankSchorkopf,FriedlWeissandRubenZandvlietforenrichingtheconferenceas speakersandchairs.Lastbutnotleast,IamgratefultoAnnaKozyakova,Mauricio Pacheco, Doris Ruhr, Laura Wanner, Oskar de Wyl and Jia Xu, who served as membersoftheconferenceorganizationteam,andtoJasminEvers,LauraWanner andOskardeWylforassistingmewiththeeditionofthemanuscript. G€ottingen,Germany HennerG€ott August2017 v Contents LabourStandardsinInternationalEconomicLaw:AnIntroduction. . . 1 HennerG€ott PartI SettingtheScene InternationalEconomicandSocialDimensions:DividedorConnected?... 11 Peter-TobiasStoll TheILO’sMandateandCapacity:Creating,Proliferating andSupervisingLabourStandardsforaGlobalizedEconomy. . . . . . . 37 ClaireLaHovary WhytheShiftfromInternationaltoTransnationalLawIsImportant forLabourStandards. . . .. . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. 57 AnneTrebilcock PartII LabourRegulationofTrade,InvestmentandFinance TheImplicationsofEC–SealProductsfortheProtection ofCoreLabourStandardsinWTOLaw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 ThomasCottier TheWTOandChildLabour:ImplicationsfortheDebate onInternationalConstitutionalism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 FranziskaHumbert LabourStandardsandTrade:NeedWeChooseBetween‘HumanRights’ and‘SustainableDevelopment’?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 ToniaNovitz CivilSocietyMeetingsinEUFreeTradeAgreements:ThePurposes Unravelled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 JanOrbie,LoreVandenPutte,andDeborahMartens vii viii Contents ComparativeConclusionsonArbitralDisputeSettlementinTrade- LabourMattersUnderUSFTAs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 PatrickAbel AnIndividualLabourComplaintProcedureforWorkers,Trade Unions,EmployersandNGOsinFutureFreeTradeAgreements. . . . . 185 HennerG€ott ImplicationsofCETAandTTIPonSocialStandards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 ReingardZimmer MainstreamingInvestment-LabourLinkageThrough‘Mega-Regional’ TradeAgreements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 HennerG€ottandTillPatrikHolterhus LabourStandardsandtheWorldBank.AnalysingthePotentialof SafeguardPoliciesforProtectingWorkers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 FranzChristianEbert PartIII BusinessConductandLabourStandards SoftStandardsandHardConsequences:WhyTransnationalCompanies CommittoRespectInternationalLabourandSocialStandards, andHowThisRelatestoBusinessandRegulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 KatjaGehne ThePromotionofLabourStandardsThroughInternationalFramework Agreements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 RüdigerKrause TransnationalLabourLitigation:TheUpsandDownsUndertheAlien TortStatute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 AnjaSeibert-Fohr PromotingLabourStandardsinGlobalSupplyChainsThrough Consumers’Choice:IsSocialLabellingEffective?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 NazliAghazadeh PartIV LabourStandardsinInternationalEconomicLaw:AProposal forPractice AModelLabourChapterforFutureEUTradeAgreements. . . . . . . . . 381 Peter-TobiasStoll,HennerG€ott,andPatrickAbel Contributors Patrick Abel Georg-August-University Go¨ttingen, Institute of International and EuropeanLaw,Go¨ttingen,Germany Nazli Aghazadeh Georg-August-University Go¨ttingen, Institute of International andEuropeanLaw,Go¨ttingen,Germany ThomasCottier UniversityofBerne,WorldTradeInstitute,Berne,Switzerland Franz Christian Ebert Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and InternationalLaw,Heidelberg,Germany KatjaGehne BASF,Ludwigshafen,Germany Henner G€ott Georg-August-University Go¨ttingen, Institute of International and EuropeanLaw,Go¨ttingen,Germany Till Patrik Holterhus Georg-August-University Go¨ttingen, Institute of Interna- tionalandEuropeanLaw,Go¨ttingen,Germany ClaireLaHovary UniversityofGlasgow,SchoolofLaw,Glasgow,Scotland FranziskaHumbert UniversityofBerne,Berne,Switzerland OxfamGermany,Berlin,Germany Ru€diger Krause Georg-August-University Go¨ttingen, Institute of Labour Law, Go¨ttingen,Germany DeborahMartens GhentUniversity,Ghent,Belgium ToniaNovitz UniversityofBristolLawSchool,Bristol,UK JanOrbie GhentUniversity,Ghent,Belgium LoreVandenPutte GhentUniversity,Ghent,Belgium AnjaSeibert-Fohr Ruprecht-Karls-University,Heidelberg,Germany ix x Contributors Peter-TobiasStoll Georg-August-UniversityG€ottingen,InstituteofInternational andEuropeanLaw,G€ottingen,Germany Anne Trebilcock Georg-August-University G€ottingen, Institute of Labour Law, G€ottingen,Germany FormerLegalAdviserandDirectorofLegalServices,InternationalLabourOrga- nization,Geneva,Switzerland ReingardZimmer BerlinSchoolofEconomicsandLaw,Berlin,Germany Labour Standards in International Economic Law: An Introduction HennerG€ott Content References.......................................................................................... 7 The ever-progressing globalization of the economy and the growing economic interdependenceofstateshasaprofoundandlastingimpactontheworldoflabour. AstheInternationalLabourOrganization(ILO)haspointedoutinits2008Decla- rationonSocialJusticeforaFairGlobalization,thisimpactisambivalent: [O]n the one hand, the process of economic cooperation and integration has helped a number of countries to benefit from high rates of economic growth and employment creation, to absorb many of the rural poor into the modern urban economy, to advance their developmental goals, and to foster innovation in product development and the circulationofideas[.] [O]ntheotherhand,globaleconomicintegrationhascausedmanycountriesandsectors tofacemajorchallengesofincomeinequality,continuinghighlevelsofunemploymentand poverty,vulnerabilityofeconomiestoexternalshocks,andthegrowthofbothunprotected work and the informal economy, which impact on the employment relationship and the protectionsitcanoffer.1 Against this backdrop, securing and improving adequate levels of worker pro- tectionwhilepreservingthebenefitsofglobalizationhasbecomeanissueofutmost importance.2 What is at stake is not only to ensure effective compliance and implementation as a factual matter. Rather, there is also the normative question which level of protection is adequate, or, in other words, how labour standards should be protected and promoted in the light of the challenges posed by a 1ILODeclarationonSocialJusticeforaFairGlobalization,adoptedon10June2008. 2TheILOhasconceptualizedthisquestioninitsDecentWorkAgenda,aslaiddowninits2008 DeclarationonSocialJusticeforaFairGlobalization.SeeInternationalLabourOffice(1999)and Vosko(2002). H.G€ott(*) Georg-August-UniversityG€ottingen,InstituteofInternationalandEuropeanLaw,G€ottingen, Germany e-mail:[email protected] ©SpringerInternationalPublishingAG2018 1 H.Go¨tt(ed.),LabourStandardsinInternationalEconomicLaw, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69447-4_1
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