Wednesday, August 10, 2005
[IWS] ILO: WORKING TIME LAWS: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE [2005]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
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International Labour Office -- Geneva
WORKING TIME LAWS: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE [2005]
Findings from the ILO's Conditions of Work and Employment Database
Deirdre McCann
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/condtrav/pdf/wtwo-dm-05.pdf
[full-text, 85 pages]
[excerpt]
The report draws on the Working Time Database, a searchable online
database covering laws on working time ( www.ilo.org/travdatabase).1 The
Database and this report are intended to make information on working time laws
easily accessible; raise awareness of what is being done to improve working time
arrangements in different countries; and, by permitting valid and accurate
comparisons of regulations at the national level, advance national and international
debates about how working time should be regulated.
The report builds on our recent publication on Working Time and Workers'
Preferences in Industrialized Countries,2 which drew on the experience of these
countries to make a set of suggestions for designing working time policies that
can advance 'decent working time'. For the future, the data compiled for this
report will be drawn on as part of our current programme of research on working
time trends, laws and policy developments in developing and transition countries,
the results of which we intend to publish next year.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
International Labour Office -- Geneva
WORKING TIME LAWS: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE [2005]
Findings from the ILO's Conditions of Work and Employment Database
Deirdre McCann
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/condtrav/pdf/wtwo-dm-05.pdf
[full-text, 85 pages]
[excerpt]
The report draws on the Working Time Database, a searchable online
database covering laws on working time ( www.ilo.org/travdatabase).1 The
Database and this report are intended to make information on working time laws
easily accessible; raise awareness of what is being done to improve working time
arrangements in different countries; and, by permitting valid and accurate
comparisons of regulations at the national level, advance national and international
debates about how working time should be regulated.
The report builds on our recent publication on Working Time and Workers'
Preferences in Industrialized Countries,2 which drew on the experience of these
countries to make a set of suggestions for designing working time policies that
can advance 'decent working time'. For the future, the data compiled for this
report will be drawn on as part of our current programme of research on working
time trends, laws and policy developments in developing and transition countries,
the results of which we intend to publish next year.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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