East Asian Labor and Employment Law: International and Comparative Context

This book deals with international labor and employment law in the East Asia Region (EA), particularly dealing with China, South Korea and Japan. It explores and explains the effects of globalization and discusses the role played by international labor law as it affects lawyers, business, labor, labor unions and human resource management, and the labor issues that can arise in dealing in EA trade and investment. The text, and the readings (from area experts), are organized and written to provide the reader with, first, a broad understanding and insight into the global dimensions of the fast-emerging area of labor and employment issues (e.g., global legal standards and their interplay with domestic and foreign laws); and second, to show how these laws and approaches play out in specific EA countries (comparing global approaches with the specific laws of each country on four common agenda items: regulatory administration, workers' rights, trade unions and dispute resolution).

1. Perspective: globalism and its impacts; 2. Global legal standards; 3. Agenda items: criteria, alternatives, and evaluative standards; 4. East Asian labor law regimes; 5. Evaluating comparative and competitive advantages in East Asian HRM practices.