Annotated CAFTA Labor Chapter

Annotated CAFTA Labor Chapter - Public Citizen

Annotated CAFTA Labor Chapter. For more information: LORI WALL AGE. Chapter Sixteen. Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch". 202-546-4996. This guts this. JUTRAG.

CAFTA - International Trade Administration

Final Texts. Preamble. CAFTA Preamble [30KB]. Chapter 1. Initial Provisions ... Labor [118KB]. Chapter 17. Environment [168KB]. Chapter 18. Transparency [59KB] ...

16-1 Chapter Sixteen Labor Article 16.1

Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to empower a Party's authorities to undertake labor law enforcement activities in the territory of another Party.

central america-united states free trade agreement (cafta-dr)

CAFTA-DR—the dispute settlement chapter. The CAFTA-DR labor chapter ... CAFTA-DR countries to do their own analysis of labor issues in the region, including ...

Submissions under the Labor Provisions of Free Trade Agreements

Labor Chapter of CAFTA-DR · ILAB in the Dominican Republic. Guatemala. Guatemala Submission under CAFTA-DR. CAFTA-DR logo. Arbitral Panel Decision Reached (6/ ...

Chapter 16 - Labor | United States Trade Representative

Trade Agreements · Free Trade Agreements · CAFTA-DR (Dominican Republic-Central America FTA) · CAFTA Documents; Chapter 16 - Labor ...

DR-CAFTA Labor Rights Issues - Every CRS Report

... Labor Provisions Included in DR-CAFTA Each Party (Chapter 16, Labor): 1. Shall not fail to effectively enforce its own labor laws in a manner affecting trade;

Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade ...

Labor Issues. The labor chapter was a strong point of contention in the. CAFTA-DR congressional debate, divided largely along party lines and ...

CAFTA - International Economic Law and Policy Blog

These exchanges again showed the complications of the trade-labor relationship and the multiple functions of labor chapters in trade agreements: leveling the ...

DR-CAFTA and Worker's Rights: WOLA

The area on labor law reform attempts to bring the countries up to international standards. The section on budget and personnel needs of the labor ministries ...

Building under the Dominican Republic – Central America – United ...

On March 26, 2012, OTLA received a submission under the CAFTA-DR Labor Chapter from the AFL-CIO and 26 Honduran labor unions and civil society ...

19 USC 4111: Periodic reports and meetings on labor obligations ...

(iii) the efforts made by the CAFTA–DR countries to comply with article 16.5 and Annex 16.5 of the Agreement and to fully implement the White Paper ...

CAFTA-DR Labor Provisions: Why They Fail Workers and Provide ...

Marisa Anne Pagnattaro, The "Helping Hand" in Trade Agreements: An Analysis ... 132 CAFTA-DR's labor chapter fails to require that the national labor ...

Request for Comments for Dominican Republic-Central America ...

CAFTA-DR-specific trade capacity-building funds were appropriated through fiscal year 2010 and subsequently, the Bureau of International Labor ...

Drawing Lessons From the US-Guatemala CAFTA Dispute

AFL-CIO et al., Public Submission to the Office of Trade & Labor Affairs (OTLA) Under. Chapters 16 (Labor) and 20 (Dispute Settlement) of the Dominican Republic ...

Labor Enforcement Issues in U.S. FTAs

supersede NAALC for labor disputes (see below). • Dominican Republic-Central America FTA. (CAFTA-DR) and U.S.-Bahrain FTA labor chapters.

Articel 16.21(a) of the CAFTA-DR (Guatemala Labor)

Article 16.8 of the CAFTA-DR defines “labor laws” for the purpose of Chapter ... In accordance with our analysis in section III.D we consider here whether (1) at.

Wrong Turn for Workers' Rights: The US-Guatemala CAFTA Labor ...

... CAFTA dispute resolution chapter. This was the first time the United States ever brought a labor case to dispute settlement under a trade ...

Labor Standards in Recent U.S. Trade Agreements

The CAFTA Labor Chapter is more "robust" than the. U.S.-Jordan FTA, or even ... * Our analysis, supported by an impartial review/study by the ILO, shows ...

Labor Provisions in U.S. Free Trade Agreements - Publications

commitments related to the labor and environmental provisions. The TPA largely reflects the same labor chapter as contained in the CAFTA-DR with some ...