Chatting Conflicts | The Guatemala – United States Work Enforcement Disagreement under CAFTA-DR

This scandal sheet of Chatting Conflicts collection reviews the current arbitral panel record in the conflict In the Issue of Guatemala – Concerns Associating With the Responsibilities Under Write-up 16.2.1(a) of the CAFTA-DR, which was launched by the USA in 2010.

The Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Open Market Contract (CAFTA-DR) likewise consists of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, and also Nicaragua as its celebrations.

The conflict centres on the supposed failing of Guatemala to apply its residential legislations handling the defense of the right of organization, defense of the right to arrange and also haggle jointly, and also appropriate problems of job. The USA suggested that those failings comprised “a continual or reoccuring strategy or inactiveness” by Guatemala which they were “in a way influencing profession”, in offense of the Work Phase of the CAFTA-DR.

The United States insurance claims were not maintained by the panel. Particularly, the panel discovered that bulk of Guatemala’s supposed failing to apply residential work regulations was refrained “in a way influencing profession.”

Adhering to a discussion on the essential searchings for of the panel, the professionals will certainly participate in an exchange of sights on the lawful and also plan ramifications of the searchings for, and also will certainly likewise go over substantive and also step-by-step elements of global profession and also financial investment regulation, global work criterion and also FTA arrangements in the context of the conflict.

Program

17:15 Panel Conversation

Mediator:
Robert MCDOUGALL, International Centre for Profession and also Sustainable Growth

Discussion of the record of the CAFTA-DR arbitral panel:
Colette VAN DER VEN, Sidley Austin

Discussants:
Joost PAUWELYN, Grad Institute of International and also Growth Researches, Geneva
Pablo LAZO-GRANDI, Permanent Goal of Chile to the United Nations Workplace and also various other global organisations in Geneva
Doug PALMER, Politician (on-line audio speaker)

18:15 Seminar

Even more info: https://www.ictsd.org/themes/trade-law/events/talking-disputes-the-guatemala-us-labour-enforcement-dispute-under-cafta