We demonstrate that cognitive constraints produce injustice in its most paradigmatic form: incorrect verdicts in judicial trials. Responding to a request for help, we conducted a field study in Mexican labor courts in which time pressure on the judges leads to their making mistakes, many of...

Chapter 1. Introduction and key concepts -- Chapter 2. Disabled people in the UK’s labour market and Conservative government policy: a critique.-Chapter 3. The legal framework -- Chapter 4. Research methods: our approach to socio-legal research -- Chapter 5. Features of cases and outcomes at...

Central to understanding the effect of arbitration schemes on the process of collective bargaining is understanding the process by which arbitrators make decisions. A model of arbitrator behavior inconventional arbitration is developed that allows the arbitration award to be a function of both...

A general model of arbitrator behavior in conventional and final-offer arbitration is developed that is based on an underlying notion of an appropriate award in a particular case. This appropriate award is defined as a function of the facts of the case independently of the offers of the parties....

From a strictly formal point of view, employment regulation in Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia (CEECs) provides an acceptable level of protection for employees. However, workers’ formal rights are being violated and circumvented on a massive scale. Because the oversight system is...

From a strictly formal point of view, employment regulation in Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia (CEECs) provides an acceptable level of protection for employees. However, workers' formal rights are being violated and circumvented on a massive scale. Because the oversight system is...

Evaluating human rights damages is one of the most challenging aspects of human rights adjudication. The Ontario Human Rights Code gives decisionmakers jurisdiction to order monetary compensation for injury to dignity, feelings and self-respect. Where discrimination is found, the...

Collective bargaining is one of the means by which employees can participate in decision-making in management of organisations, influencing, at least, pay and the terms of conditions of employment. It is an adversarial process, which involves negotiation between parties with conflicting...

The failure to heed orders prohibiting strike violence and the perpetuation thereof in the context of a protected strike skews collective bargaining power and takes on a form of economic duress. The pressure placed on the employer as a result of the violence and not as a result of the strike,...

Collective bargaining is one of the means by which employees can participate in decision-making in management of organisations, influencing, at least, pay and the terms of conditions of employment. It is an adversarial process, which involves negotiation between parties with conflicting...

Employment tribunals or labor courts are responsible for enforcing employment protection legislation and adjudicating rights-based disputes between employers and employees. Claim numbers are high and, in Great Britain, have been rising, affecting both administrative costs and economic...

Die Entscheidungspraxis des Europäischen Gerichtshofes in arbeitsgerichtlichen Verfahren ist in den vergangenen Jahren in der Rechtswissenschaft teils scharf kritisiert worden. Als Synonym für diese Kritik stehen insbesondere die Entscheidungen in den Rs. Viking, Laval, Rüffert oder zuletzt...

The paper analyses the arbitration of dismissal disputes by Australian labour courts over a 15 years' time span characterized by two major legal reforms to unfair dismissal statutes. We isolate two channels by which we think the social values of the Federal government affected the decisions of...

African sub-regional courts present a paradox: They are established to ensure trade integration is rule-based, but they have overwhelmingly decided human rights rather than trade cases. The COMESA court of Justice is unique, rather than deciding human rights cases, it has overwhelmingly decided...

From social legislation to labor justice : the common background in the Americas / Juan Manuel Palacio -- American labor justice and the problem of trade union legitimacy / Leon Fink -- Labor justice in Canada : Mackenzie King and collective labor rights / Frank Luce -- The ambiguity of labor...

Field studies linking workforce age to performance tend to treat performance as one-dimensional and often focus on individual, not organizational performance. To analyze the effects of workforce age on organizational performance, we suggest treating performance as multidimensional with at least...

This paper analyses data on union and employer rankings of different panels of arbitrators in an actual arbitration system. A random utility model of bargainer preferences is developed and estimated. The estimates indicate that unions and employers have similar preferences, in favor of lawyers,...

Aktualisierte Neuauflage des verständlichen und kurzen Überblicks (zuletzt BA 8/06) über das Arbeits- und Sozialrecht. Diese Auflage berücksichtigt alle Gesetzesänderungen bis Januar 2008. Diese Neuauflage enthält: das Allgemeine Gleichbehandlungsgesetz, das Bundeselterngeld- und...