A Response of the Social Environment to Economic Globalization
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Verslo ir teisės aktualijos / Current Issues of Business and Law
ISSN 1822-9530 print / ISSN 2029-574X online
2011, 6(2), 185–191
http://dx.doi.org/10.5200/1822-9530.2011.10
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Globalization of labour and social rights: A response of the
social environment to economic globalization
Andrzej Marian Świątkowski
Jean Monnet Professor of European Labour and Social Security Law Head of the Chair of Labour Law and Social Policy Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University Grodzka str. 53, 31–001 Krakow, Poland E-mail: andrzej.swiatkowski@uj.edu; tel.: +012 663 1840 Received 20 January 2011; accepted 25 October 2011
Abstract
The paper deals with the problem of social and economic globalization. The purpose of this paper is to suggest general and concrete solutions regarding resolution of the identified problem. The author suggests that the answer to globalization should be globalization of social and economic rights. In the opinion of the author, globalization has a direct effect not only on the creation of international standards of labour law, their development. It is evident that the consequences of economic globalization, the growing labour migration, and a substantial increase of the volume of investments from Asian countries in the Western market not only inevitably affect the national labour and social security legal systems of individual countries, but also determine the legal status of each employee and employer as well as their rights and duties. Therefore, the author believes that, with a view to avoiding extremes and harmonising different standards of labour law and social security, particular attention must be devoted to international labour law, such as conventions and recommendations of the International Labour Organization, legal acts of the European Union and application of provisions of the European Social Charter. Moreover, the author claims that in...
ISSN 1822-9530 print / ISSN 2029-574X online
2011, 6(2), 185–191
http://dx.doi.org/10.5200/1822-9530.2011.10
T E I S Ė S
A K T U A L I J O S
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I S S U E S
O F
L A W
Globalization of labour and social rights: A response of the
social environment to economic globalization
Andrzej Marian Świątkowski
Jean Monnet Professor of European Labour and Social Security Law Head of the Chair of Labour Law and Social Policy Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University Grodzka str. 53, 31–001 Krakow, Poland E-mail: andrzej.swiatkowski@uj.edu; tel.: +012 663 1840 Received 20 January 2011; accepted 25 October 2011
Abstract
The paper deals with the problem of social and economic globalization. The purpose of this paper is to suggest general and concrete solutions regarding resolution of the identified problem. The author suggests that the answer to globalization should be globalization of social and economic rights. In the opinion of the author, globalization has a direct effect not only on the creation of international standards of labour law, their development. It is evident that the consequences of economic globalization, the growing labour migration, and a substantial increase of the volume of investments from Asian countries in the Western market not only inevitably affect the national labour and social security legal systems of individual countries, but also determine the legal status of each employee and employer as well as their rights and duties. Therefore, the author believes that, with a view to avoiding extremes and harmonising different standards of labour law and social security, particular attention must be devoted to international labour law, such as conventions and recommendations of the International Labour Organization, legal acts of the European Union and application of provisions of the European Social Charter. Moreover, the author claims that in...