Labor and Mandatory Arbitration Agreements: Background and Discussion

CRS ReportCRSLaborMandatoryArbitration0501.pdf: 279 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Worker Rights Consortium Assessment re Darong Printing and Embroidery (Cambodia): Findings, Recommendations, and Status Report

WRC report on assessment of health and safety hazards at the Darong Printing and Embroidery factory in Cambodia. Also describes remedial actions taken by the company following the WRC report

Organizational Conflict Resolution and Strategic Choice: Evidence from a Survey of Fortune 1000 Companies

In this paper we develop the argument that a firm’s ADR strategies are likely to be associated with a firm’s use of one conflict resolution option or the other. More specifically, we examine whether a firm’s use of either arbitration or mediation is a function of (1) the extent to which the use of either of these dispute resolution processes aligns with the goals and objectives management is seeking to advance, and (2) the extent of the firm’s commitment to the use of these practices. We expect to find that an organization’s use of either mediation or arbitration may be governed by different underlying strategic objectives as well as the firm’s broader commitment to ADR. In what follows, we further develop this strategic choice argument

Incentives for Change: China\u27s Cadre System Applied to Water Quality

The Chinese government has struggled to enforce environmental law, due in part to local protectionism. In an attempt to overcome local protectionism, the 2008 Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution uses the cadre system to incentivize local officials to enforce national water quality standards. This comment argues that the cadre system presents a pragmatic means of attaining enforcement of quantified environmental standards because it implements the already existing Chinese Communist Party’s system of vertical hierarchy that has proven relatively successful in achieving other social goals. The cadre system, however, will only produce clean water over the long-term if it incentivizes political support and funding for environmental protection agencies to create accurate quantified water quality data. Moreoever, China’s use of the cadre system in combating water pollution signals a move toward a political rather than legal solution and will further centralize Chinese Communist Party power, thus limiting transparency, democracy, and public involvement

Putting Amotion in Motion: Removal of an Elected Official by a Municipal Governing Body for Just Cause

This Article will examine the development and application of North Carolina common law addressing the removal of an elected municipal official through the process of amotion. Amotion is recognized as an inherent power of the governing body of a municipal corporation to remove an elected official for reasonable and just cause due to misconduct or unfitness to hold office