Beyond Employment Tribunals: Enforcement of Employment Rights by EU-8 Migrant Workers
Beyond Employment Tribunals: Enforcement of Employment Rights by EU-8 Migrant Workers
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超越就业法庭：欧盟八国移民工人的就业权利的执行
DOI：
10.1093/indlaw/dwx020
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发表时间：
2018
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1
通讯作者：
Barnard C
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作者：
Barnard C
许多欧盟8国移民工人从事低技能、低收入的工作，特别是在食品加工和农业等部门。我们感兴趣的是这些移民工人在英国的经历，特别是当他们被剥夺就业权利时会发生什么。在早期的工作中，我们已经表明，欧盟8国移民工人对就业法庭的利用严重不足。因此，本文的问题有三个方面。第一，为什么欧盟8国移徙工人很少在失业前行使其就业权利，移徙工人所经历的法律的、经济、政治和文化环境在多大程度上限制或促成了执法行动？第二，如果农民工不求助于政府，他们会怎么做？他们只是继续前进，还是使用其他执法机制（如工头许可证管理局）？这些其他执法程序和机构在保护移徙工人和类似弱势家庭佣工的权利方面的效力如何？第三，可以做些什么来改善欧盟8国移民工人和英国劳动力市场上其他弱势工人（包括非欧盟移民）的就业权利，特别是在新的劳动力市场执法机构（LMEA）的情况下？我们认为，设立薪酬和工作权利监察员可能有助于解决欧盟8国移民工人和其他弱势国家工人所遇到的一些问题。
Many EU-8 migrant workers work in low-skilled, low-paid jobs, particularly in sectors such as food processing and agriculture. Our interest lies in the experience of those migrant workers in the UK and specifically what happens when they are denied their employment rights. In earlier work, we have already shown that there was a significant underuse by EU-8 migrant workers of Employment Tribunals (ETs). So the questions for this article are three-fold. First, why do so few EU-8 migrant workers enforce their employment rights before ETs and to what extent do legal, economic, political and cultural landscapes, as they are experienced by migrant workers, constrain or enable enforcement action? Second, if migrant workers do not resort to ETs, what do they do? Do they simply move on, or do they use alternative enforcement mechanisms (such as the Gangmasters’ Licensing Authority)? How effective are these other enforcement processes and institutions in protecting the rights of migrant and similarly vulnerable domestic workers? And third, what might be done to improve the enforcement of employment rights for EU-8 migrant workers and for other vulnerable workers on the UK labour market, including non-EU migrants, especially in the light of the new labour market enforcement agency (LMEA)? We argue that the establishment of a Pay and Work Rights Ombudsman might help address some of the problems experienced by EU-8 migrant workers and other vulnerable national workers.