International Labour Standards and Islamic Teachings: The Principles of the Basic Entitlement Package for Migrant Workers in Arab Countries

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-223
Author(s):  
Latife Reda
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
International Law ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Moral Obligation ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Labour Standards ◽  
The Creation ◽  
International Labour Standards ◽  
International Conventions

This article discusses the means of protection for migrant workers entrenched in the notions of social justice of both international law and Islam, and how these tools may be implemented in the creation of a solid basic entitlement package for migrant workers in Arab states. The study also shows how international conventions and recommendations on labour and decent work are no different from the Islamic principles and how they constitute a moral obligation on part of the Arab countries to implement such measures.

The ILO and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: labour migration, decent work and implementation of the Compact with specific reference to the Arab states region

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-320
Author(s):  
Ryszard Cholewinski
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
International Labour Organization ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Global Compact ◽  
Governance Challenges ◽  
Arab States

AbstractThis paper explores the role played by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in the consultations and stocktaking during 2017 and the negotiations during 2018 leading up to the adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). It examines selected parts of the text of the GCM, with particular reference to the ILO's mandate of securing social justice and decent work, as well as the protection of migrant workers and governance of labour migration. The final part of the paper looks ahead to the ILO's role in the implementation of the GCM, with specific reference to the Arab states region, where migration for employment is significant and the governance challenges, particularly in relation to the protection of low-wage and low-skilled workers, are especially acute.

scholarly journals THE ENDURING VULNERABILITY OF MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS IN EUROPE

2013 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 599-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clíodhna Murphy
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Employment Law ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
Labour Standards ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Migration Law ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

AbstractWhile the rights of domestic workers are expanding in international law, including through the adoption of the ILO Domestic Workers Convention in 2011, migrant domestic workers remain particularly vulnerable to employment-related abuse and exploitation. This article explores the intersection of the employment law and migration law regimes applicable to migrant domestic workers in the United Kingdom, France and Ireland. The article suggests that the precarious immigration status of many migrant domestic workers renders employment protections, such as they exist in each jurisdiction, largely illusory in practice for this group of workers. The labour standards contained in the Domestic Workers Convention, together with the recommendations of the UN Committee on Migrant Workers on the features of an appropriate immigration regime for migrant domestic workers, are identified as providing an alternative normative model for national regulatory frameworks.

Part IV Activities of Organizations, Ch.22 Labor

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Langille Brian
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Human Freedom ◽  
Social Outcomes ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Alternative Account ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
Labour Standards ◽  
The Creation ◽  
International Labour Standards

This chapter examines ‘labor’ as an issue which international organizations have attempted to regulate over the last century by using legal and other techniques to construct modes and structures of governance. It begins by setting out the five reasons why the terrain of labour is especially difficult for IOs to negotiate. It then considers how these reasons both structure and complicate the competing narratives of the labour issue, in the context of the roles and actions of prominent IOs as well as significant events and debates. It is argued that the long-held narrative about international labour standards as a necessary cost to be paid in order to either to constrain markets in the name of fairness, or to avoid radical social outcomes, is today inadequate. Rather, a new, alternative account is needed: that labour law can be, and is best seen, as holding positive value for both the creation of real human freedom, just societies and economic progress.

scholarly journals The ILO and Transformation of Labour Law

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-49
Author(s):  
Ulla Liukkunen
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Labour Rights ◽  
Contractual Arrangements ◽  
Labour Standards ◽  
International Labour Standards

Abstract The article explores some of the biggest challenges to the ILO caused by globalization and altering of the collective labour rights scene. It examines the recent transformation of collective bargaining regimes at national and transnational level and the consequences for normativities that characterize the relationship between labour law and the system of international labour standards. Domestic bargaining regimes are influenced by decentralization whereas in a transnational setting, with the phenomena of contractual arrangements between multinational enterprises and trade unions or other employee representatives, transnational collectivization of labour law is occurring. The process of transnationalization of labour law affects the traditional labour law paradigm with profound consequences for our understanding of the purpose and role of labour law. The transformation of labour law highlights regulatory developments that require reinforcement of the role of fundamental labour rights. Building a perspective on major global challenges to the ILO at the beginning of its second centenary requires an assessment of the labour question in terms of flexibility and vulnerabilities. This raises the question of inclusivity, calling for the ILO decent work agenda, employment creation, social protection, rights at work and social dialogue, all to be more firmly integrated in global regulatory approaches to work.

scholarly journals PERLINDUNGAN HAM PEKERJA MIGRAN: KAJIAN NORMATIF KEWAJIBAN INDONESIA BERDASAR PRINSIP-PRINSIP DAN NORMA-NORMA HUKUM INTERNASIONAL

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Lestari Rahayu ◽  
Siti Muslimah ◽  
Sasmini ,
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Legal Argumentation ◽  
Customary International Law ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
International Conventions

<p align="center"><strong><em>A</em></strong><strong><em>b</em></strong><strong><em>s</em></strong><strong><em>t</em></strong><strong><em>r</em></strong><strong><em>a</em></strong><strong><em>c</em></strong><strong><em>t</em></strong></p><p><em>T</em><em>h</em><em>i</em><em>s research is conducted to get a legal argumentation related to responsibility of Indonesia on protection of its citizen, especially migrant workers. The question will be answered by determining the norms and principles that underlie Indonesia in protecting the human rights of its citizens. The sources of this research are international conventions, customary international law, doctrine, legal instruments in Indonesia and some of publications concerning the state responsibility to protect migrant workers. The legal sources collected by study documentation are analyzed by interpretation and content analysis. The results show that the general legal principles in which become basic of Indonesia associated with its obligation to provide protection of human rights of women migrant workers are based on the principle of nationality/citizenship of Indonesia, the principle of pacta sunt servanda, the principle of exhaustion of local remedies, the shift in meaning of the sovereignty principle and recognition principles theory of natural rights which inherent in every human being. While the norms are contained in the Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 97), the Convention on Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions), 1975 (No. 143), United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1</em><em>9</em><em>9</em><em>0</em><em>.</em></p><p><strong><em>Key words: </em></strong><em>human rights, migrant workers, obligations, international law</em></p><p align="center"><strong>A</strong><strong>b</strong><strong>s</strong><strong>t</strong><strong>ra</strong><strong>k</strong></p><p>Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk memperolah gambaran yang lebih mendalam mengenai tanggung jawab Negara Indonesia dalam memberikan perlindungan terhadap hak-hak warga negaranya, khususnya pekerja migran. Penulis mencoba menjawab permasalahan tersebut dari sisi normatif yaitu dengan mendasarkan pada norma-norma dan prinsip-prinsip yang mewajibkan setiap negara termasuk Indone- sia untuk melindungi hak asasi warga negaranya. Bahan penelitian yang digunakan meliputi perjanjian- perjanjian internasional, doktrin, hukum kebiasaan internasional, peraturan perundang-undangan di Indonesia, serta beberapa publikasi yang terkait dengan kewajiban negara atas perlindungan pekerja migran. Bahan hukum yang dikumpulkan melalui studi dokumen selanjutnya dianalisis melalui interpretasi teks dan analisis isi. Hasil pembahasan menunjukkan bahwa prinsip-prinsip hukum umum yang menjadi dasar Indonesia terkait dengan kewajibannya untuk memberikan perlindungan HAM pekerja migran didasarkan pada prinsip nasionalitas, prinsip <em>pacta sunt servanda</em>, prinsip <em>exhaustion of local remedies</em>, pergeresan makna prinsip kedaulatan dan diakuinya prinsip teori hak-hak kodrati yang melekat dalam diri setiap manusia. Sedangkan norma-normanya terdapat dalam Konvensi Migrasi untuk Pekerjaan (Revisi), 1949 (No. 97), Konvensi Pekerja Migran (Ketentuan-Ketentuan Tambahan), 1975 (No. 143), <em>United Nations Convention on The Protection of The Rights of All Migran Workers and Member of Their Families </em>tahun 1990.</p><strong>Kata kunci: </strong>hak asasi manusia (HAM), pekerja migran, kewajiban, hukum internasional

scholarly journals Harmonization of International Law in Indonesian Legal System: The Study of Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Overseas

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Achmad Zulfikar ◽  
Satria Sukananda ◽  
Hamza Baharuddin ◽  
Said Sampara
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
International Law ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Legal Process ◽  
International Conventions

This study aims to describe and analyze the development of the harmonization of international conventions of migrant workers rights with the Indonesian Migrant Workers Act and to examine the process of adopting the substance of international conventions on the protection of migrant workers' rights into the Indonesian Migrant Workers Act. This study uses legal normative research method by reviewing principles, concepts of law and related legislation and regulations. The results of this study shows that: harmonization of international conventions on the protection of migrant workers' rights into Law No. 18 of 2017 is carried out through a transformation that refers to the position of international conventions in Indonesian national law; and the substance of international conventions to protect the rights of migrant workers is adopted through two processes which are a political process of discussion of Amendment of Law No. 39 of 2004 to become Law No. 18 of 2017 by the House of Representatives of Republic of Indonesia and civil society organizations and a legal process of referring Law No. 6 of 2012 in Amendment to Law No. 39 of 2004 to become Law No. 18 of 2017 version of May 2016 and identifying seven findings to compare the Law No. 18 of 2017 and the ratification law of the Convention.

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