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Enforcing Labor Rights against Multinational Corporate Groups in Europe
Author(s) -
KRYVOI YARASLAU
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.2007.00472.x
Subject(s) - multinational corporation , enforcement , business , liability , law enforcement , economic justice , labour law , law and economics , law , accounting , political science , economics , finance
Voluntary corporate codes of conduct for multinational enterprises can have certain quasi‐legal effects for national legal systems, but the enforcement of labor standards remains at the national level. Two main obstacles to the enforcement of labor rights against multinationals are limited access to justice in multinationals’ home countries and the concept of limited liability. These obstacles are understood differently in common law and civil law jurisdictions and require different approaches to overcome them.