scholarly journals RACIALIZED IN JUSTICE: THE LEGAL AND EXTRA-LEGAL STRUGGLES OF MIGRANT AGRICULTURAL WORKERS IN CANADA

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian A Smith
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Agricultural Workers ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Freedom Of Association ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Temporary Labour Migration ◽  
Constitutional Right

Considerable attention has been directed at the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2011 Fraser decision regarding the constitutional right to freedom of association of agricultural workers in Ontario.  While these interventions rightly tend to chastise the Court’s ruling denying meaningful associational rights, a marked indifference exists toward the racialized dimensions of the ruling and of agricultural labour production in Canada more broadly.  But an application of the insights of critical race theory, while necessary to addressing the limits of contemporary jurisprudential and scholarly legal analysis, fails to sufficiently confront the particularities of labour exploitation embedded in Canada’s temporary labour migration regime.  Striving to deepen the study of racialization, labour and law in Canada, I situate the legal and extra-legal struggles of migrant agricultural workers within an anti-racist class analysis of law attentive to the ways racialization and racism infuse labour migration.  The racialized class construction of migrant labour -- a “structural necessity” within agricultural production -- occurs through the imposition of politico-legal impediments organized through global capitalism and the system of national states.  The analysis ends by advocating a turn away from prevailing approaches to the study and practice of labour law to a transgressive agenda concerned with openly contesting capitalist exploitation in all forms including racialized legal regulation of migrant agricultural labour. Une attention considérable a été accordée à la décision de la Cour suprême du Canada rendue en 2011 dans l’arrêt Fraser, qui portait sur le droit constitutionnel à la liberté d’association des travailleurs agricoles en Ontario. Bien que les interventions tendent à juste titre à critiquer la décision de la Cour rejetant des droits d’association significatifs, il existe une indifférence marquée à l’égard des dimensions racialisées de la décision et de la production de la main-d’œuvre agricole au Canada d’une façon générale. Cependant, bien qu’elle soit nécessaire pour aborder les limites de l’analyse juridique savante et jurisprudentielle contemporaine, l’application des idées de la théorie raciale critique ne tient pas suffisamment compte des particularités de l’exploitation de la main-d’œuvre qui fait partie intégrante du régime canadien de migration temporaire de la main-d’œuvre. Dans le but d’approfondir l’étude de la racialisation, de la main-d’œuvre et du droit au Canada, je place les luttes judiciaires et extrajudiciaires des travailleurs agricoles migrants au sein d’une analyse antiraciste du droit qui tient compte des diverses façons dont la racialisation et le racisme influencent la migration de la main-d’œuvre. La construction du travail migrant fondée sur une catégorie racialisée -- une « nécessité structurelle » dans le cadre de la production agricole -- se fait par l’imposition d’obstacles politico-juridiques organisés par le capitalisme mondial et le système des États nationaux. L’analyse se termine en préconisant l’abandon des approches actuelles relatives à l’étude et à l’exercice du droit du travail, au profit d’un programme transgressif visant à contester ouvertement l’exploitation capitaliste sous toutes ses formes, y compris la réglementation racialisée de la main-d’œuvre agricole migrante.

scholarly journals The Freedom of Association Mess: How We Got into It and How We Can Get out of It

2009 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Langille
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
Freedom Of Association ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
State Action ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Canadian constitutional law regarding freedom of association for workers is a mess. The jurisprudence to date has taken an approach to state action and positive obligations to legislate which is inconsistent with section 15, and has failed to articulate the relationship between the abstract statement of basic rights or freedoms and the detailed statutes and regulations that instantiate and enforce them. This paper focuses on the impact of the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in BC Health. The author argues that this case misunderstood Canada’s labour law history, international labour law obligations, “Charter values”, and the distinction between “freedoms” and “rights”. This paper argues that by using labour relations statutes as a starting point and applying the constitutional idea of equality, courts can protect freedom of association for workers and find a way out of the mess we are in.

scholarly journals PROFESINIŲ SĄJUNGŲ MONOPOLIS KAIP TEISINIS JŲ VEIKLOS PAGRINDAS. LENKIJOS ATVEJIS

Teisė ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Andrzej Marian Świątkowski
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Freedom Of Association ◽  
Labour Law

Straipsnyje analizuojamas profesinių sąjungų steigimosi ir statuso teisinio reguliavimo aspektas. Autorius analizuoja Lenkijoje istoriškai susiklosčiusią situaciją, kai profesinėms sąjungoms teisės aktais buvo suteiktas darbuotojų atstovavimo kolektyviniuose darbo santykiuose monopolis. Straipsnyje taip pat keliamas civilinės teisės reguliuojamos įsisteigimo laisvės ir darbo teisės garantuojamos asociacijų laisvės santykio klausimas. The article analyses the legal aspects of the establishment of trade unions and the legal regulation of trade unions status. The article is based on Polish legal system where monopoly of the trade unions representation is historically established. The author also tries to find the answer on the relation between civil-law regulated right to establish and the labour law right to freedom of association.

scholarly journals COMPARATIVE AND LEGAL ANALYSIS OF THE EARTH MARKET IN UKRAINE AND THE NETHERLANDS

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.M. Pavlyuchenko ◽  
A.O. Sushko
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Land Market ◽  
Positive Experience ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Constitutional Right

The moratorium on the sale of agricultural land is described. The violation of the constitutional right to private property was substantiated by the introduction of a moratorium. The principles of legal regulation of the land market in the Netherlands are generalized. A comparative legal analysis of the development of proposals for the acquisition of positive experience in the regulation of the agricultural land market with the possibility of their implementation in the Ukrainian legislation has been carried out.

scholarly journals LEGISLATIVE MODEL FOR THE SECURITY OF INTERROGATION BAN AS A WITNESS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-116
Author(s):  
N.G. Muratova
Keyword(s):  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Witness Testimony ◽  
The Past ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
Legislative Model ◽  
The Right ◽  
Democratic Norms

The author examines the legal regulation of the legislative regulation of the prohibition of interrogation as a witness, which has been increasingly strengthening over the past five years. The list of persons who cannot be interrogated as a witness in criminal cases is steadily expanding. The genesis of the safety of witness testimony lies in the ancient democratic norms of domestic and foreign legislation. Can we say that this is related to the institution of witness immunity, or is it a slightly different idea of the legislator? The author, on the basis of a historical and legal analysis of legal acts, substantiates the opinion about the idea of safety of prohibition of interrogation as a witness as a fundamental mechanism for the implementation of the constitutional right to state protection and the right to a legislative list of cases of exemption from the obligation to testify. The study offers a cross-sectoral analysis of the circumstances that are the criteria for prohibiting interrogation as a witness in criminal cases. A legislative model of procedural security procedures for the prohibition of interrogation as a witness is proposed.

scholarly journals ELECTORAL DISTRICTS FORMATION AND REDISTRICTING EXPERIENCE OF CANADA REGIONS

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Игорь Ирхин ◽  
Igor Irkhin
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
National Representation ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
Historical Comparative ◽  
First Time

On the basis of the analysis of federal and regional level legislations, as well as judicial practice this article studies the issues of constitution-legal regulation of the order of formation and redistricting of electoral districts in the regions of the Canadian federation from a perspective of ensuring the implementation of the provisions of the Supreme Court of Canada to ensure an effective national representation (Reference re Prov. Electoral Boundaries (Sask.)). The article outlines proposals on mainstreaming the multifaceted approach of Canadian legislators and the expansion of the list of conditions that affect the ability to make decisions on formation and adjustment of electoral districts in the Russian Federation. The author uses general scientific methodology (analysis, synthesis, analogy, comparison), as well as other methods (historical, legal, historical, comparative law). For the first time the constitution-legal analysis of the Canadian Constitution provisions was carried out, as well as that of the acts of judicial practices and regional legislation regulating the procedure of the electoral districts’ formation and redistricting in the constituent entities of the Canadian federation from a perspective of ensuring the implementation of the provisions of the Supreme Court of Canada to ensure an effective national representation.

scholarly journals Pacifying the ‘Armies of Offshore Labour’ in Canada

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
State Constraints ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Migrant Labour ◽  
Temporary Labour Migration ◽  
Productive Labour ◽  
Legal Interventions ◽  
Acute Challenge

An exploration of the link between pacification and global apartheid in the context of the racialized effects of neoliberal labour migration is undertaken. Drawing on the general layout of Canada’s temporary labour migration regime, the legal regulation of migrant labour is taken as a project of pacification that enforces apartheid conditions. Juxtaposed against the construction of migrant labour as menace or threat to ‘host’ communities in Canada, the growing need for “armies of offshore labour” presents an especially acute challenge for capital and national states. Despite certain perceptions that it is freed from national state constraints owing to the hyper-competitiveness of contemporary migration, capital remains deeply beholden to the politico-legal interventions of states, both sending and receiving. Situated within the hierarchical and uneven logic of the nation-state system and global capitalist development, pacification becomes a way in which capital and states attempt to mediate contradictions and govern not “insecurities” surrounding human mobility but rather the need to fabricate productive labour, a need contingent upon the complex transnational legal regulatory dynamic of unfree migrant labour which itself relies upon and perpetuates apartheid.

Protection of labour rights by trade unions in separate post-Soviet countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-233
Author(s):  
Mykola I. Inshyn ◽  
Serhii Ya. Vavzhenchuk ◽  
Kateryna V. Moskalenko
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Freedom Of Association ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Labour Rights ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
International Conventions

Trade unions play an increasingly more critical role in protection of the employees of every state. This article aims to outline the problems with regard to the legal regulation of labour rights protection by trade unions in post-Soviet countries. The research is based on a system of various general philosophical methods (dialectical method), general scientific methods, such as methods of synthesis and analysis, induction and deduction, and special legal methods, including comparative legal method and the method of modelling. The choice of the mentioned methods was determined by the purpose of this study. The legal rules on protection of labour rights by trade unions in post-Soviet countries are set up by a number of international conventions, Constitutions of such countries (as this is a special constitutional right, being under a special protection of the state) and their national legislative acts. Some of the post-Soviet states are now members of the EU (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) and are subject to regional EU regulations. Every post-Soviet State has its own jurisprudence, legal practice and traditions of labour rights’ protection and hence has its own national peculiarities with regard to this protection, the representation of employees and the architecture of labour legislation. The analysis conducted by the authors shows that the national legislators were not fully following the international standards established by the International Labour Organization and did not fully secure the freedom of association. All the mentioned countries were recommended either to change some pieces of legislation or to supervise the existing draft of laws to make them meet the rules set in a number of international conventions. The authors have also stated that trade unions in post-Soviet countries are not always effective

scholarly journals Lawyer’s request: problems of legal regulation and practice of application

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 66-68
Author(s):  
D.E. Zaykov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Constitutional Right

The article presents a historical and legal analysis of the creation and development of the Institute of law of the request, evaluates its significance for the realization of the constitutional right to qualified legal assistance, the problems of legal regulation and practice of lawyer’s request and suggests ways to resolve them.

scholarly journals The constitutional right of HIV-infected russian citizens to protect personal privacy: limits of restriction

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-130
Author(s):  
A. V. Basova ◽  
G. N. Komkova ◽  
R. A. Torosyan
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Complete Study ◽  
Constitutional Right

The aim: to conduct a constitutional and legal analysis of the legal regulation of medical secrecy protection for HIV-infected Russian citizens.Materials and methods. The analysis was carried out on the basis of Russian and foreign legislation and scientific literature published on this topic over the past 7 years, including in Pubmed. The study used dialectical and logical methods, which created the basis for a comprehensive and complete study of the limits of admissibility of protecting medical secrets of HIV-infected; the use of the systemicstructural method allowed to study it in conjunction with constitutional guarantees of human rights.Results. Some problems in the legal regulation of medical secrecy protection of HIV-infected Russian citizens have been identified. It is noted that in Russia there are specific circumstances and reasons requiring disclosure of the positive status of HIV-infected citizens. They hide their diagnosis when entering into intimate relationships with healthy people and even in marriage. The current criminal liability for contracting another person’s HIV infection does not ensure the suppression of infringements on the health of others. Based on the analysis of judicial practice, the excessive protection of medical secrets of HIV-infected is noted. Conclusion. It is concluded that in order to effectively protect the health of Russian citizens, it is necessary to limit in some aspects the protection of personal secrets of HIV-infected persons to ensure the safety of all people in contact with them. 

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