ILAW Network

South Africa: THE TRANSFORMATION OF WORK: Challenges and Strategies — Restriction and Solidarity in the New South Africa: COSATU’s Complex Response to Migration and Migrant Workers in the Post-Apartheid Era

The report first provides a historical overview of migrant labor and migration policy, introduces South Africa’s labor market institutions and industrial relations and the weakness of the corporatist institution. Then …

Janice Fine

Other, Trade Union Rights

ILO and the International Labour Standards Setting: A Case of Nigeria Labour Acts

This study examines the influence of ILO standards on domestic statutes and regulations. It then investigates the level of compliance by employers and enforcement measures by the government. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274989869_ILO_and_the_International_Labour_Standards_Setting_A_Case_of_Nigeria_Labour_Acts

Genty Kabiru Ishola

Trade Union Rights

The Workers’ Rights in Nigeria: Myth or Reality?

This article reviews the framework of worker’s rights in Nigeria through the prism of domestic labor statutes, UN treaties and the influence of the ILO. The article discusses the challenges …

Segun Adesanya, Yemi Oginni

Supply Chains

A Bitter Cup – the Exploitation of Tea Workers in India and Kenya Supplying British Supermarkets

The report shows the labor problems under global supply chains context. The report points out that the tea workers in Kenya and India are suffering low wages, bad working conditions …

Anna Morser (War on Want)

Migrant Workers

Centers for migrants in Senegal and Mauritania

The report shows a good practice for protection migrant workers in Mauritania and Senegal. ITUC helps Mauritania to build a migrant workers center in Nouakchott to provide assistance to Senegalese …

ITUC

Employment Relationship