Conference Agenda

Towards an Economically, Socially and Climate-just Global Governance System: Negotiating a Treaty on Business and Human Rights

Gabriele Koehler

Fortifying Neo-Liberalism: The Strike (Minimum Service Levels) Bill 2023 as an Authoritarian Crucible

Ioannis Katsaroumpas

Masking The Retention Problem: The Effects of Mask Mandates on Worker Turnover

Reed Keller Eaglesham

Supporting Decent Work Through Strategic Public Procurement: Local Implementation, Facilitating Factors and Unintended Consequences of the UK Social Value Act

Deborah Harrison, Phillip Edwards

Decent Work in Transnational Labour Markets: The Case of the EU Shipbuilding Industry

Frederic Huettenhoff, Karen Jaehrling

Proposing a Multi-Sectoral, Multi-Jurisdictional Arbitration Tribunal to Resolve Violation of Fundamental Rights of Workers in Global Value Chains

Liwayway Dumayag Arce-Rodriguez

Royalties Role for Just Transition Policies in Mining Activities

Márcia Cristina Kamei López Aliaga, Norma Sueli Padilha, Fernanda Giannasi, Luciano Lima Leivas

An International Law on Decent Work for Young Workers: The Quality Apprenticeships Recommendation and the Future of Work

Chair(s): Deirdre McCann

Discussant(s): Sangheon Lee, Ashwani Aggarwal, Vicki Donlevy

Presentations of the Special Session

The Challenges of Regulating for Quality and Formality in Apprenticeships: The Role and Relevance of the New ILO Standard

Deirdre McCann, Andrew Stewart

The Quality Apprenticeships Recommendation: A New Global Lodestar for Skills and Youth Employment

Patrick Daru

Quality Apprenticeships in the ILO and EU: Intersections and Divergences

Jeff Bridgford

Introducing the Labour Rights Index

Iftikhar Ahmad, Fiona Dragstra, Daniela Ceccon

Employment Equity Act in South Africa: An Analytical Review from 1998 - 2022

Ivan Steenkamp

Legislative Wins Are Just The Beginning: Worker Organizing and Training Post Enactment of Protective Regulation in Three Sectors in the United States

Zoe West, Anne Marie Brady, KC Wagner

Using Foresight to Think and Act Upon an Uncertain Future World of Work: Trade Unions’ Experiences

Rafael Peels, Aida Ponce Del Castillo, Tom Wambeke, Mohammed Mwamadzingo

What We Can Learn From the Newly Published Volume, Social Justice and the World of Work: Possible Global Futures (Hart, 2023)

Chair(s): Anne Trebilcock, Brian Langille

Discussant(s): Gabrielle Marceau

Presentations of the Special Session

Buying Beyond our Borders: Public Procurement and Labour Rights in Global Supply Chains

Olga Martin-Ortega, Martina Trusgnach

Peeling the Onion: On Choices Judges Make

Guy Mundlak, Judy Fudge

The Resilience of Multilateralism: An ILO Introspection for a System-wide Vision

Tomi Kohiyama, Thomas Lieby

Interacting Regulatory Innovations for Addressing Decent Work Deficits in Global Value Chains: Public Governance, Enforceable Brand Agreements, and Grassroots Labor Organizing

Mark Anner

Actors, Norms and Processes to Address Decent Work Deficits in a Globalized Economy: An Emerging Multi-Level Governance Framework in the Global Cobalt Supply Chain

Si Chen

Governance and Decent Work in Regional Value Chains: Transition Towards Polycentric Governance in sub-Saharan Africa?

Matthew Alford, Stephanie Barrientos, Shane Godfrey, Khalid N Nadvi, Maggie Opondo, Margareet Visser

The Brazilian New Procurement Law and Its Use as an Instrument to Fight Modern Slavery and to Promote Decent Work

Maurício Krepsky Fagundes, Lívia Mendes Moreira Miraglia

Effectiveness of Forced Labour Import Bans: The Case of the U.S. Ban on Malaysia’s Rubber Gloves

Mei Trueba, Ffion Staniland

The Bermuda Triangle: Mechanisms of Discrimination in Acceptance to Work in the Intermediary Process of Placement Firms

Ronit Nadiv, Lilach Lurie, Shani Kuna

Linking Labour Market Enforcement and Supply Chain Governance in the UK. Where Next?

Nikolaus Hammer

Modern Slavery and Public and Supply Chain Initiatives: Lessons Learned from the Cattle Supply Chain in the Brazilian State of Pará Abstract

Juliana Lira da Silva e Cunha Brandão, Holly Gibbs, Lisa Naughton-Treves, Jane Collins

Regulatory Strategies of Retail Trade Unions in the Face of Socio-technical Transformations: the Case of Functional Flexibility Schemes in Chilean Supermarkets

Alejandro Castillo Larrain

Regulating Psychosocial Risks Through The Humanisation Of Work Principle

Joanna Grace Helme

Paid Sick Leave Laws and the Spread of Covid-19

Or Eliezer Shay

Addressing Labour Rights Abuse in Public Health Supply Chains: Cutting, Nudging and Engaging

Olga Martin-Ortega, Martina Trusgnach, Cindy Berman

Collectivism and Transnational Labour: Challenges of the Non-Permanent and Terminated Indian Cabin Crew

Rinju Rasaily