Legal Norms for the Protection of labor rights of Multinational Enterprises: Based on the Perspective of Comparative Law

Authors

  • Kaili Zhong

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/hbem.v16i.10612

Keywords:

Multinational enterprises; Labor right protection; Legislation.

Abstract

With the development of economic globalization, the scale of multinational enterprises continues to expand, the number of labors working in multinational enterprises is rapidly increasing while labor rights of multinational enterprises are frequently violated. How to protect human rights of those labors has become a challenge that current world must face. The home countries, host countries, international organization and multinational enterprises fail to undertake their labor rights protection responsibilities in many times, and there are significant deficiencies in legislation here. Nowadays, multiple entities are in the practice of overseas labor protection in order to promote the world's sustainable development, integrate the interests and achieve the cause of global human rights protection career. This essay will use historical research, comparative analysis, regulatory research to provide ideas and solutions for the better realization and legislation of labor rights protection from the aspects of the history of particular labor rights protection, the concepts and characteristics of relevant protection subjects, the main reasons for the current situation of infringement, theoretical basis of labor rights protection, legislative impetus, final expectations for international actors in action.

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Published

02-08-2023