The 25th anniversary edition of the 'NAFTA and NAALC' monograph in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws, Labour Law and Industrial Relations is a comprehensive and up-to-date 270-page resource that contains essential background on the structure and operation of labour provisions in North American free trade agreements, including NAFTA, USMCA, CAFTA-DR, TPP, CPTPP, TTIP, CETA, EU-Mexico, and Canadian and US bilateral free trade agreements with partners in Latin America and around the world. It also contains a complete digest of all of the citizen petitions filed under the NAFTA labour side agreement since 1994. In addition to being the most complete compilation of NAALC cases in existence today, it outlines the internal mechanics leading to the filing of a 2000 NAALC petition with the Government of Mexico about unequal treatment of migrant workers in the US, and describes changes in the treatment of petitions by US, Mexican and Canadian authorities over the last 25 years. Highlights in 25th anniversary edition include:- the first reports issued under labour provisions of Canadian and US FTAs with Colombia;- the latest developments in pending cases filed under CAFTA-DR and the US-Peru FTA, including the 2017 decision by the first ever Arbitral Panel established under the labour provision of CAFTA-DR in the Guatemala labour case;- addition of the 2006 labour petition filed under the US-Jordan FTA;- new sections comparing labour provisions in multi-lateral FTAs such as TPP, CPTPP, CETA, and the proposed TTIP;- NAALC petitions filed with the Government of Mexico about sexism in recruitment for temporary agricultural labour programs in Canada and the United States; and0- a new chapter comparing the NAALC to labour provisions in the signed, but not-yet-ratified USMCA.
Author: Lance A. Compa, Tequila Brooks |
Publisher: Kluwer Law International |
Publication Date: Oct 23, 2019 |
Number of Pages: NA pages |
Language: English |
Binding: Paperback |
ISBN-10: 9403513438 |
ISBN-13: 9789403513430 |