This article intends to contribute with the reflection upon the theories that link FDI with social and economical development. For this purpose, the meanings of the expression “human and economical development” will be briefly reviewed, and later it will be approached along the theories on the relation of FDI with development. The theories are used as a support in order to reach this article’s goal of pointing out the FDI impacts on labour conditions on the private security multinational G4S in Mozambique, thus examining the impacts of this sort of FDI towards the country’s human development.

This paper basically tries to seek if there are any tendencies or possibilities that the power of colonizer still remains in the colonized country in terms of migration policy regarding migrant worker rights. In this paper, the author focuses on the policy of both Malaysia and the United Kingdom as a host country regarding the rights of migrant as the topic of the paper. In this paper the author uses comparative analysis by comparing the migration policy of Malaysia and the United Kingdom and focuses on the migrant worker rights to see if there are any possibilities or tendencies that Malaysia adopted the migration policy of the United Kingdom. In conclusion, the United Kingdom policy regarding the system and recruitment of migrant workers in order to limit the influx of migrant workers influenced Malaysia to adopt similar policy. But Malaysia has different implementation of policy regarding migrant worker rights comparing to the United Kingdom.

Occurring across all professions and industries, noncitizen workers experience unfair and dangerous working conditions and are discouraged from seeking legal aid because of the fear of retaliation and deportation. In addressing these concerns, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a new certification expansion in support of U nonimmigrant status and T nonimmigrant status visa applications for noncitizen workers who comply with OSHA investigations. This research project sought to holistically understand the potential obstacles noncitizen-serving nonprofit organizations could face in response to the OSHA U-visa certification expansion. Being a new option for noncitizen workers and service providers alike, this research utilizes the perspective of several expert service providers regarding the implementation of the certification expansion and where hardships in its application could occur. Through the use of a national survey and audio-visual online semi-structured interviews, service providers described their trepidations with the OSHA U-visa expansion. The research findings showcased how the implementation of the certification expansion has affected the immigration sector in terms of its possible challenges in viability, networking-building, and capacity of those involved in the application process across all social and political levels. Based on feedback offered by participating service providers, recommendations and deliverables have been developed with the intention to address these challenges and seek betterment for noncitizen workers.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:16:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernanda de Jesus Carriel.pdf: 2444964 bytes, checksum: 9b26aec45ff10cb27bd80d4e11d0707a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This present dissertation seeks to understand the processes of struggles of the social workers of Municipality of Campinas for the conquest of the journey with 30 hours per week and the relations with its labor union. The study was based on analysis of Marx about the work as a basic category of human sociability and the ideas of Engels and Marx on the trade union movement as an instrument of struggle for workers with structural limitation, but with an important contribution to the process of class-consciousness. From the conquest of the Federal Law 12.317/2010, which reduced the working hours of social workers to 30 hours, without loss of wages, there were different legal interpretations of this law. Social workers public employees, contracting with statutory regime, in some localities and spheres, as in the case of Municipality of Campinas, encountered obstacles created by public managers to recognize such a right, which ordered the resumption of the organization of workers in their union. Thus, the research was conducted with social workers of Municipality of Campinas who participated in the struggle for 30 hours, using focus groups as an instrument to collect data with the active participation of the subjects and ability to gather different views about the subject. It also appealed to the documentary sources of the file built by social workers, e-mail messages and news media. The conclusions, however provisional, indicate that the struggle for 30 hours in Municipality of Campinas called the category for a significant corporate struggle, which created the accumulation of political forces that can be sent to the struggles of the broader group of municipal workers in the context of struggles of the Brazilian working class / A presente dissertação busca compreender os processos de luta das assistentes sociais da Prefeitura Municipal de Campinas (PMC) pela conquista da jornada de 30 horas semanais e as relações com a sua entidade sindical. O estudo baseou-se nas análises de Marx sobre o trabalho como categoria fundante da sociabilidade humana e nas concepções de Engels e Marx sobre o movimento sindical como instrumento de luta dos trabalhadores com limitações estruturais, mas com importante contribuição no processo de consciência de classe. A partir da conquista da Lei Federal 12.317/2010, que reduziu a jornada de trabalho dos assistentes sociais para 30 horas semanais, sem redução salarial, surgiram diferentes interpretações jurídicas. Os assistentes sociais servidores públicos, com contratação por regime estatutário, em algumas localidades e esferas, como no caso da PMC, se depararam com os obstáculos criados pelos gestores públicos em reconhecer tal direito, o que requisitou na retomada da organização dos trabalhadores em seu sindicato. Desta forma, a pesquisa foi realizada com assistentes sociais da PMC que participaram da luta pelas 30 horas, utilizando o grupo focal como instrumento de coleta dos dados com participação ativa dos sujeitos e possibilidade de reunir diferentes concepções sobre o tema. Recorreu-se também às fontes documentais do arquivo construído pelas assistentes sociais, mensagens de correio eletrônico e notícias da mídia. As conclusões, ainda que provisórias, indicam que a luta pelas 30 horas na PMC convocou a categoria para uma luta corporativa significativa, que criou acúmulo de forças políticas que podem ser remetidas às lutas mais gerais do conjunto dos trabalhadores públicos municipais, no contexto das lutas da classe trabalhadora brasileira

For a multi-national company like Adidas, supply chain management is one of the most crucial aspects of business operations. Products cannot be sold unless Adidas’s supply chain is well-managed and efficient, and public perception of a brand/company is critical to success. This case study analyzes the effectiveness of Adidas's distinct “collaborative approach” to supply chain management, which is characterized by not only monitoring and auditing suppliers, but also training them to make Adidas’s standards their own and approaching suppliers with the intention of building long-term relationships where the suppliers can become self-sufficient. This study reviews the structure of Adidas's supply chain, the nature of Adidas's collaborative approach to supply chain management, the benefits that collaboration provides over the conventional "compliance" approach to supply chain management, and the potential shortcomings of Adidas's approach. A conclusion is reached that the collaborative approach is the backbone of Adidas's success as one of the largest apparel manufacturers in the world because of its holistic nature and consideration for unique cultural challenges.

The authors analyze the exercise of the power of controlregarding new technologies of information. Particularly, the use of GPs Tracking as a tool that the employer relies on to verify that workers fulfill their work. Firstly, the authors explain how these technologies are used at workplaces and their lack of regulation in Peruvian Law. Then, they explain the conditions necessary for not violating the workers’fundamental rights when using this tool. Finally, they discuss the case law and precedents, as well as cases seen by theNational Labour Authority. / Los autores analizan el ejercicio de la facultad de fiscalización a partir de las nuevas tecnologías de la información. en concreto, al uso del GPS como herramienta de la que se vale el empleador para cerciorarse que el trabajador cumple con sus labores. en primer lugar, se hace una explicación sobre el uso de estas tecnologías en el ámbito laboral y su falta de previsión por la normativa peruana. A continuación, explican las condiciones necesarias para que el ejercicio del GPS no vulnere los derechos fundamentales del trabajador. Finalmente, se analiza las decisiones y precedentes en la jurisprudencia, así como los casos vistos por la Superintendencia Nacional de Fiscalización Laboral.

The rights that govern a person's workplace relationship, worker rights, are an important part of everyday lifefor many people on earth. As these rights are violated, the safety of the workers livelihood is threatened and as such the lack of security undermines the social contract in society. The social contract approach to corruption, as championed by Bo Rothstein, holds that as the social contract is rejected, corruption ensues. This study examines the relationship between worker rights violations and corruption using OLS regressionwith a range of control variables. The essay finds that there is a relationship between the degree of worker right violations and corruption, but only in higher welfare countries. In the studied countries with the lowest welfare, the relationship does not manifest itself. The essay also finds that in comparison to other factors of rule of law worker right violations is perhaps not the most important one when finding determinants of corruption.

The ongoing process of mental health reform in the Czech Republic brings transformation of services provided for people with mental illness. Considering the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the involvement of care users in decision-making in both policy and service delivery is also becoming the point of interest. One form of participation of users with their own experience of mental illness in ongoing changes is to employ them as peer workers. The thesis deals with the view of peer workers employed in mental health field on the profits and difficulties associated with their profession and how peers perceive the impact of their employment on their path of recovery. The theoretical part describes the concept of recovery, explains the development and basic principles of peer support and peer jobs in the Czech Republic. Subsequently, the development of services for people with mental illness is described from institutional care to community services. Then the development of psychiatric services in the Czech Republic is explained. In the practical part, the opinion of peer workers on the advantages and disadvantages associated with their profession is examined using the qualitative research. A qualitative analysis of data obtained from semi-structured interviews with ten peer...