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Labour rights and global value chains: the recent jurisprudence challenges
Journal Title: GIORNALE DI DIRITTO DEL LAVORO E DI RELAZIONI INDUSTRIALI  
Author/s: Vania Brino 
Year:  2020 Issue: 167 Language: Italian 
Pages:  20 Pg. 451-470 FullText PDF:  372 KB
DOI:  10.3280/GDL2020-167001
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The paper, starting from the difficulty of providing effective remedial tools in the hypotheses of violation of the fundamental rights of workers in the global value chains, argue the thesis of the necessary expansion of the scope of the duty of care to overcome the constraints imposed by the territoriality of the law and the corporate veil. The Author reports the recent jurisprudential developments in the common and civil law systems as a demonstration of a tendential openness of interpretation, looking to the recent European legislation as a potential key to accessing a wider possibility of judicial protection of the violations.
Keywords: Global Value Chains; Extraterritoriality; Duty of care; Control; Jurisdiction

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Vania Brino, Labour rights and global value chains: the recent jurisprudence challenges in "GIORNALE DI DIRITTO DEL LAVORO E DI RELAZIONI INDUSTRIALI " 167/2020, pp. 451-470, DOI:10.3280/GDL2020-167001

   

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