Talk:Labor rights

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[edit] Migrants in the UAE

Reference to United Arab Emirates as "leaving little recourse" to immigrant workers is not mentioned in linked articles. The note involving UAE states there are laws against confiscating Passports and the like, but does not referance any laws. In fact, the United States also confiscates travel documents, and I daresay most countries do. Therefore, the note singling out UAE was removed as an inappropriate example. --User 71.161.193.55

The sources do mention limited recourse: "Hundreds of thousands of low skilled, poorly paid (often unpaid) South Asians work in the UAE in substandard living conditions without any rights or recourse for alleged abuses" ([http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/UAE.pdf UAE Country Profile, p. 13), and the problem in the UAE is not that the government confiscates passports, but that the employers do. This is illegal, but done anyway. Employers abuse this practice and limit worker mobility. This is what makes it noteworthy. Also, human rights groups have singled out the UAE for their labor practices, so I think it's appropriate to include.--Bkwillwm 21:03, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Straightinfo removed this section again with an edit summary saying "revert, change explained in talk, reference does not mention passports." The references do indeed mention passports. In fact, part of the removed text is a cited quote that says "withholding of passports nd travel documents by employers."[1] [[2] This article], which was also part of the removed section, discusses passports too. For example, the sentence "And a U.S. State Department report on worldwide human trafficking faults the U.A.E. and other Gulf states for commonplace labor abuses like withholding pay and passports." Clearly, the references do mention passports, so I think the section should stay.--Bkwillwm 08:06, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This page and Labour and employment law

Hi, this is something for editors of this page to bare in mind: there is also an article on labour and employment law. The article is very underdeveloped, but has quite a detailed structure, which, if possible, it would be great to fill in. Basically, I'm pointing this out so that editors can either consider a merger, or a clear line of demarcation between the two. I've posted a similar notice on the talk page of the other article. Breadandroses 08:22, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ali alkaabi

Comment from the page. "ali alkaabi is not the UAE president, he is the minister of labor" from 213.42.2.10.--Bookandcoffee 18:57, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] {{worldview}}

I removed this tag. I don't think the tag is particularly true, and I don't see any follow up discussion here as to the reason why it was placed on the article.--Bookandcoffee 00:31, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] {{or}}

This tag was placed on the article May 23 by User:Raggz. The same {{or}} (original research) tag was also placed on Social rights and Proletariat at the same time. Unless there is some specific comment addressing the tag I will remove it shortly.--Bookandcoffee 03:49, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Removed--Bookandcoffee 05:14, 25 May 2007 (UTC)