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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"International Labour Organization"”.
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Polygraph testing in the workplace in South Africa : with reflections on the international labour organization standards, United States of America and Federal Republic of Germany
… test results are accepted as evidence in labour disputes. The law also permits polygraph testing in some parts of the public sector. This study analyzes the theoretical and scientific basis of polygraph testing in the employment context. It then investigates the legitimacy of such testing …
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Polygraph testing in the workplace in South Africa with reflections on the international labour organization standards, United States of America and Federal Republic of Germany
… test results are accepted as evidence in labour disputes. The law also permits polygraph testing in some parts of the public sector. This study analyzes the theoretical and scientific basis of polygraph testing in the employment context. It then investigates the legitimacy of such testing …
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The Elimination Model versus The Protection Model: Analysis of Child Labor Policies in Peru and Bolivia (2014-2026)
… frameworks of Bolivia and Peru. </p> <p>While international human rights instruments, such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and International Labour Organization (ILO) Conventions, advocate for a universalist "Elimination Model," this research explores the …
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Šeimų, turinčių vaikų, socialinės apsaugos problemos ir perspektyvos Lietuvoje /
… ensure a stable family life, both, at the international and national level, is done at a lot of the legislation, investigations carried out, trying to figure out the fundamental problems and to achieve solutions. Social protection is a set of measures which are designed to ensure the well …
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The impact of the brain drain of professional nurses on nursing education and nursing practice in Kwazulu-Natal Province
… has increased over the past 15 years, and the international mobility of health professionals has become an important issue. Statistics show that more than 23 400 health workers from South Africa currently practice in Australia, Canada, the United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom and other …
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Kolektyvinių darbo santykių atsiradimas ir evoliucija bei reikšmė šiuolaikinei socialinei politikai /
… made from legal to the contractual regulation of labour relations and the emphasis is made on social partnership agreements (compositions), thus awakening the curiosity and encouraging to take a closer look at the collective labour relations, their origins and evolution, to analyze the effects of …
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British activists, homeworker rights, and transnational organising, 1994-2004
… from its local and national focus to become more internationally oriented. It argues that these changes were the result of a mixture of internal and external forces, from the ambition of individual activists to the globalisation of supply chains, growing international cooperation, and the collapse …
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Creating healthier populations: an assessment of the use of data on social determinants of health to inform decision-making in eight countries
… Response Tracker (OxCGRT) and data from the International Labour Organization (ILO) on the informal labor sector. All data were used in descriptive and multivariable regression analyses. RESULTS: Of 8,754 respondents, 56.2% (95% CI: 55.1%, 57.2%) ranked healthcare as the most important …
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Regulating domestic work : international and comparative perspectives in South Africa, Namibia and Indonesia
… domestic work. It approaches this topicfrom an international and national perspective. An international perspective in thiscontext means the regulation of domestic work as an international labour standard bythe International Labour Organization (ILO). Its national perspective entails the …
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Exploitation at Sea: Examining the Structural Failings of an International Legal Regime
… for the continuation of systemic forms of labour exploitation such as impressment, crimping, and the criminalisation of desertion. At the turn of the twentieth century seafaring labour became the subject of specific regulation under the newly established International Labour Organization …
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Family leave policy and child health: Evidence from 19 OECD countries from 1969 to 2010
… Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), World Health Organization (WHO), International Labour Organization (ILO), and World Bank. Additional data sources include the United States Social Security Administration (SSA), …
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La protezione dei diritti sociali nell'ordinamento dell'Unione Europea
… social rights lie, through the reorganisation of international sources. In particular the international instruments of protection of social rights are taken into account, both at the universal level, due to the activity of the United Nations Organisation and of its specialized agency, the …
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Adapting domestic regulations to the ILO decent work agenda: a review of Nigeria's non-standard and informal sector.
… work arrangements not envisaged by traditional labour laws. This challenge is particularly glaring in a developing country like Nigeria, where a significant proportion of the workforce is absorbed by the informal sector due to high rates of unemployment. Additionally, a significant percentage of …
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‘When is dismissal an appropriate sanction for misconduct? and who has the last say?’
… of dismissals, for misconduct. South African Labour history has been marred by confusion and inconsistency in relation to the test to be adopted in determining the fairness of dismissals. This has been so, because there have been two dominant schools of thought, one referred to as the ‘own …
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Better Work and Global Governance
… case study of Better Work, a program run by the International Labor Organization and the International Finance Corporation. It aims to improve working conditions and productivity in the apparel industry. The purpose of this case study is to examine the role that international organizations can …
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A pregnancy test: women workers and the hybrid American welfare state, 1940-1993
This dissertation shows that the US developed the outlines of a maternity policy at least by WWII. Rarely were the needs of pregnant workers or new mothers at the top of social policy initiatives. However, when European countries were developing their plans, reformers and bureaucrats sought to …