The Enforcement of Minimum Labour Standards in an Era of Neo-Liberal Globalisation: An Overview‪.‬

Introduction There is now a growing public policy debate and associated body of academic research on the question of minimum labour standards--including their enforcement. By minimum labour standards, we mean state-regulated social protection specifically addressed to setting an irreducible floor for working conditions. Labour standards include both procedural rights and substantive conditions. The most fundamental procedural rights are that workers can organise collectively, and have their organisations represent their interests, bargain and take industrial action. Substantive conditions include wages and hours of work, workplace health and safety standards and those affording compensation and other rights to injured workers and their families or dependents.