New Sources and New Actors of International Labour Law

• Authors: Nikita L. Lyutov

Abstracts

EN

The last decade has been marked by a huge growth of the economic power of multinational companies. This has enhanced attention to their as employers' activity, especially in the developing countries. As a reaction of the companies to this attention and critics, a new source of international labour law - corporate codes of conduct - has surfaced. There are both positive and negative effects of practice of adoption of such codes. The effectiveness of these new acts is now a matter of serious debates. This article considers the opportunities and threats associated with this phenomenon.

Keywords

EN

multinational companies; corporate codes of conduct; social responsibility; international labour standards

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Issues of Business and Law
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 2
• Pages: 95-103

Contributors

author

Nikita L. Lyutov

• Labour and Social Security Law Department, Moscow State Law Academy, Russian Federation Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya str. 9, 123995 Moscow, Russian Federation

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10088-010-0009-6