Tag: Labor Law
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History of Labor Legislation
History of Labor Legislation Introduction In comparing legislation affecting factories, mines, shops and truck in the chief industrial countries of the continent with that of Great Britain, it is essential to a just view that inquiry should be extended beyond the codes themselves to the general social order and system of law and administration in…
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History of the International Labour Organization
History of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Origins of the ILO An important part of the scheme for a League of Nations embodied in the Peace Treaty of Versailles in 1919 involved the creation of a new International Labour Organization. The Labour part of the Treaty (Part XIII.) rested on the principle laid down in…
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Labour Department and Ministry
Labour Department and Ministry One of the outward signs of the intensified governmental interest in labour has been the establishment in 1913 of a Department of Labor in the United States, and in 1917 of a Ministry of Labour in Great Britain. United Kingdom The demand for the creation in the United Kingdom of a…
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Convention Concerning the Abolition of Forced Labor
Convention Concerning the Abolition of Forced Labor Article 1 Each Member of the International Labour Organisation which ratifies this Convention undertakes to suppress and not to make use of any form of forced or compulsory labour– (a) as a means of political coercion or Education or as a punishment for holding or expressing political…
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Convention Concerning Forced Labor 4
Convention Concerning Forced Labor Article 20 Collective punishment laws under which a community may be punished for crimes committed by any of its members shall not contain provisions for forced or compulsory labour by the community as one of the methods of punishment. Article 21 Forced or compulsory labour shall not be used for…
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Convention Concerning Forced Labor 4
Convention Concerning Forced Labor Article 20 Collective punishment laws under which a community may be punished for crimes committed by any of its members shall not contain provisions for forced or compulsory labour by the community as one of the methods of punishment. Article 21 Forced or compulsory labour shall not be used for…
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Convention Concerning Forced Labor 3
Convention Concerning Forced Labor Article 15 1. Any laws or regulations relating to workmen’s compensation for accidents or sickness arising out of the employment of the worker and any laws or regulations providing compensation for the dependants of deceased or incapacitated workers which are or shall be in force in the territory concerned shall…
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Convention Concerning Forced Labor 2
Convention Concerning Forced Labor Article 10 1. Forced or compulsory labour exacted as a tax and forced or compulsory labour to which recourse is had for the execution of public works by chiefs who exercise administrative functions shall be progressively abolished. 2. Meanwhile, where forced or compulsory labour is exacted as a tax, and…
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Convention Concerning Forced Labor
Convention Concerning Forced Labor Article 1 1. Each Member of the International Labour Organisation which ratifies this Convention undertakes to suppress the use of forced or compulsory labour in all its forms within the shortest possible period. 2. With a view to this complete suppression, recourse to forced or compulsory labour may be had,…
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U.S. Labor law and movement history 2
U.S. Labor law and movement history 2 See U.S. Labor law and movement history World War I During World War I Gompers and the AFL were strong supporters of the war effort. They minimized strikes as wages soared and full employment was reached. The AFL unions strongly encouraged their young men to enlist in the…
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U.S. Labor law and movement history
Labor law and organized labor history of the United States See U.S. Labor law and movement history 2 Labor law history is an effectoffspring of the social and political action of the working class movement. While this movement started its first revolts in seventeenth-century Europe, it was only capable of organizing itself in the nineteenth…
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International Labour Organization conventions list
All International Labour Organization conventions: the list Official titles of the Conventions adopted by the International Labour Conference No. 1 – Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919 2 – Unemployment Convention, 1919 3 – Maternity Protection Convention, 1919 4 – Night Work (Women) Convention, 1919 (shelved) 5 – Minimum Age (Industry) Convention, 1919 6 –…