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15 - The Business Sector and the Rights to Work and Just and Favourable Conditions of Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 September 2021

Ilias Bantekas
Affiliation:
Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Michael Ashley Stein
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
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The goal of this chapter is to elucidate the role and responsibility of the business sector for safeguarding these two rights by clarifying the origins, legal nature, scope and enforcement of obligations placed upon corporate actors. Specifically, the chapter examines whether and how the status of a duty-bearer affects the ambit of the two rights and obligations they give rise to. In other words, what are the differences between the role of businesses and that of states in securing the rights to work and just and favourable conditions of work? While the traditional (positivist) paradigm of human rights protection sees states as ultimately responsible for ensuring that rights are respected by everyone within their respective jurisdictions, certain aspects of the two rights may be fulfilled only by states. In that sense, the scope of duties arising out of the rights to work and just and favourable conditions of work which businesses can in theory be responsible for is materially different.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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