ILO Labor Standards and Trade Agreements: A Case for Consistency

Authors

• Desiree LeClercq, University of Georgia School of LawFollow
• Jordi Agusti-Panareda, International Labour Office
• Franz Christian Ebert, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

Previously posted on SSRN.

Abstract

A growing number of trade agreements have taken an important step toward ensuring consistency by referring to - and hence incorporating the legal content of - ILO instruments. On its face, this uniform reference suggests an increasing alignment between the ILO's international labor standards system and the labor provisions included in the various trade agreements. The application of these references in the decentralized trade context needs to be considered carefully, however, as there is a risk of inconsistent practices between agreements.

Repository Citation

Desiree LeClercq, Jordi Agusti-Panareda, and Franz Christian Ebert, ILO Labor Standards and Trade Agreements: A Case for Consistency , 36 Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal 347 (2015),
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/1683