Hallmark features of The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law:

First casebook covering both international and comparative labor and employment law

Authorship

o prolific, respected scholars

o all of the authors have taught law outside the United States

Conceptual framework

o compares national laws dealing with individual collective employment rights

o including antidiscrimination law and privacy law

o considers the systems used to resolve labor and employment disputes in the context of international labor law

Broad coverage of international labor law

o International Labour Organization

o NAFTA and other bilateral trade agreements that include labor standards

o the European Union

o comparison of the laws of the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, Japan and India

o transnational corporations' self-regulatory efforts (or codes of conduct)

o mechanisms for pursuing international labor standards in United States courts

Explores the similarities and the differences among various approaches to the employment relationship

o allows students to better understand and evaluate the approach each country takes

o helps develop a normative approach to labor and employment law

o national legal materials are contextualized with historical and cultural issues