Brown, Ronald C.
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Item Up and down the Multinational Corporations' Global Labor Supply Chains: Making Remedies That Work in China(UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal, 2017) Brown, RonItem U.S.-Russia-East Asia Comparisons of Dispatch (Temporary) Worker Regulations(Russian Law Journal, 2017) Brown, RonItem Robots, New Technology, and Industry 4.0 in Changing Workplaces. Impacts on Labor and Employment Laws(American Univesity Business Law Review, 2018) Brown, RonItem Eu-China Bit and FTA Enhance Labor Cooperation and Protection(University of Bologna Law Review, 2019) Brown, RonItem Due Diligence Hard Law Remedies for MNC Labor Chain Workers(UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, 2018) Brown, RonItem China-EU BIT and FTA: Building a Bridge on the Silk Road Not Detoured by Labor Standard Provisions(Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, 2019) Brown, RonItem A New Leader in Asian Free Trade Agreements: Chinese Style Global Trade: New Rules, No Labor Protections(UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal, 2017) Brown, RonItem Commentary, Danish NCP Advances Due Diligence Obligations of OECD Guidelines in Rana Plaza Case(2017) Brown, Ronald C.The case concerns a complaint by Clean Cloth Campaign Danmark and Aktive Forbrugere (Active Consumers) to the Danish OECD National Contact Point (NCP) regarding the activities of PWT Group. The complaint alleged that PWT Group had violated the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises by failing to carry out due diligence in relation to its supplier, the textile manufacturer New Wave Style Ltd. of Bangladesh. New Wave Style was housed in the Rana Plana Complex in Bangladesh, which collapsed in 2013, killing more than a thousand textile workers. The NCP found that PWT had indeed violated the OECD Guidelines, first, by not using risk and decision-making systems, such as checklists, in connection with inspections and visits with its supplier at Rana Plaza and, second, by failing to demand that the supplier ensure its employees’ basic human and labor rights, including taking adequate steps to ensure occupational health and safety in their operations. The inspection of the supplier’s work site building structures revealed no violation of due diligence in that no incorporated or established practice was in place at the time of the accident. The NCP found that practice per se can be indicative but is not conclusive in regard to the scope of risk-based due diligence.Item U.S.-Russia-East Asia Comparisons of Dispatch (Temporary) Worker Regulations(2017) Brown, Ronald C.Item Government’s Obligation to Address Obstacles to Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining Rights Reiterated in Korea Metal Workers’ Union and others v the Republic of Korea(2017-09-11) Brown, Ronald C.In a complaint to the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association against the government of the Republic of Korea, multiple unions alleged a no-union corporate policy in the context of disguised subcontracting and employment relations, antiunion practices involving harassment, intimidation, pressure to withdraw from trade unions and dismissal of union leaders, resistance to collective bargaining and noncompliance with agreements, and government failure to address allegations. In response, the government stated that on numerous occasions its labor agencies and courts had responded to filed charges and found no violations and that its own investigations had concluded similarly. The Korean Employer’s Federation, tasked with collective bargaining on behalf of the subcontractors, asserted that the subcontractors were employers, independent of a Samsung subsidiary, acted according to the law, responded to filed complaints before government institutions, and made corporate decisions based on business interests rather than antiunion practices. The Committee, however, determined that the allegations had not yet been fully addressed by either the government or the subcontractors, including the alleged kidnapping of a union member and termination of a union leader for his union activities. The Committee requested further investigation and reporting and invited the complainants to submit to the government further necessary information in several areas. The Committee also requested that the government develop appropriate mechanisms to protect subcontracted workers’ rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining and to keep the Committee informed of the outcome of independent investigations of the allegations.