Labour standards and international trade regulation – a new era of enforcement?

• Authors: Joanna Gomula , James T Crawford

Title variants

PL

Standardy pracy I międzynarodowe przepisy handlowe – nowa era egzekwowania przepisów?

Abstracts

PL

Mimo że ILO istnieje od ponad wieku, nie jest ona wyposażona w mechanizmy międzynarodowe do egzekwowania standardów pracy, które promuje. Globalizacja i liberalizacja handlu uwidoczniły silne powiązanie między prawami dotyczącymi pracy i przepisami dotyczącymi handlu, co doprowadziło do prób uregulowania przepisów odnoszących się do pracy w kontekście handlu, początkowo przez WTO, a ostatnio na mocy klauzul dotyczących pracy w dwustronnych i regionalnych umowach o wolnym handlu (FTA). Niniejszy artykuł stanowi historyczny przegląd tych prób i przedstawia najnowsze opracowania, które odzwierciedlają nową politykę Stanów Zjednoczonych i Unii Europejskiej wykorzystywania swoich umów o wolnym handlu jako mocnego narzędzia do egzekwowania standardów pracy.

EN

Although the ILO has been in existence for over a century, it is not equipped with international mechanisms for enforcement of the labour standards that it promotes. Globalization and trade liberalization have exposed a strong relationship between labour rights and trade regulation, leading to attempts to regulate labour provisions in a trade context, initially through the WTO and, more recently, through labour clauses in bilateral and regional free trade agreements (FTAs). This contribution provides a historical overview of these attempts and presents most recent developments, which reflect a new policy of the United States and the European Union to use their FTAs as a stronger instrument of labour standards enforcement.

Keywords

EN

ILO; Labour standards; International trade regulation; Enforcement; WTO; FTAs; Labour clauses; EU-Korea FTA; Freedom of association

PL

: ILO; standardy pracy; międzynarodowe przepisy handlowe – egzekwowanie; WTO; umowy o wolnym handlu; klauzule dotyczące pracy; umowa o wolnym handlu podpisana między Unią Europejską i Koreą; swoboda zrzeszania się

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Humanitas
• Journal: Roczniki Administracji i Prawa
• Year: 2021
• Volume: specjalny II
• Issue: XXI
• Pages: 79-94

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Joanna Gomula

author

James T Crawford

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Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0015.6344

Biblioteka Nauki

2056779