Regional labour standards in the SADC : is it possible given the EU experience?

dc.contributor.authorSmit, P.A. (Paul Andries)
dc.contributor.emailpaul.smit@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-18T09:14:02Z
dc.date.available2016-02-18T09:14:02Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractGlobalisation and the increasing movement of capital and labour across international borders, with the exception of migrant workers who are facing major obstacles due to immigration laws, are creating a situation where laws in general and labour laws in particular are acquiring an international character. International bodies such as the United Nations, the International Labour Organisation and the European Union have adopted various international norms and standards to which most countries have agreed and which have established minimum international standards for basic universal human rights and worker rights. The Southern African Development Community is a transnational organisation that has also adopted certain basic norms and standards in its Treaty, Charter on Fundamental Social Rights and various protocols that are applicable to all citizens within the Community. In this contribution, the concept of transnational labour relations is considered. The different international approaches towards transnational labour relations are evaluated, as is the manner in which the European Union approached the integration of regional labour standards. The author seeks to establish what the Southern African Development Community can learn from the European Union’s experience and in what way a transnational labour relations system or regional labour standards regime for the Southern African Development Community can be established.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2015en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work is based on research supported by the National Research Foundation.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://upjournals.co.za/index.php/JLSDen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSmit, P 2015, 'Regional labour standards in the SADC : is it possible given the EU experience?', Journal of Law, Society and Development, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 165-188.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2313-8289
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/51444
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUnisa Pressen_ZA
dc.rights© Journal of Law, Society and Development and Unisa Pressen_ZA
dc.subjectTransnational labour relations (TNLR)en_ZA
dc.subjectSocial rightsen_ZA
dc.subjectLabour rightsen_ZA
dc.subjectRegional labour standardsen_ZA
dc.subjectInternational lawen_ZA
dc.subjectRegional integrationen_ZA
dc.subjectSouthern African Development Community (SADC)en_ZA
dc.subjectEuropean Union (EU)en_ZA
dc.titleRegional labour standards in the SADC : is it possible given the EU experience?en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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