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Welcome
Conference
Global Labor and Employment Law for the Practising Lawyer
is the theme of New York University's 61st Annual Conference on Labor, June 5-6, 2008, the nation’s premier forum for the consideration of employment studies.
Bringing together leading practitioners, government officials and academics, the NYU Conference offers a rare opportunity for sustained, balanced dialogue with the experts on cutting-edge developments concerning international labor and employment law and immigration."
The Center for Labor and Employment Law presents its one-day program on “Doing Business in China: The Labor and Employment Law Story.” The event will take place on Friday, May 9, 2008 in the Law School 's Pollack Colloquium in Furman Hall at 245 Sullivan Street , New York , NY 10012 . NYU Law Professor Samuel Estreicher will be the host of this special event and early returns indicate that we will have a great turnout. We are fortunate to have some of the top in-house people in the country speaking at the event, as well as the father of China legal studies in the United States , Professor Jerome Cohen.
About The Center
The Center is founded on the intuition that because labor represents
on average 60-70% of the cost of doing business, improvements in
the U.S. labor market are a key to the competitive future of our
economy and the quality of life of Americans. This is an area where
independent, nonaligned academics can foster communications and
prod improvements that may elude the participants in the 'battlefield.'
The Center's mission is to address the need to --
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develop objective, policy-oriented scholarship concerning
the economic, social and legal issues relating to the workplace |
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improve organizational performance through more effective
utilization of employees |
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encourage reform of our labor relations system so as to reduce
socially wasteful labor-management/ employee-employer hostility
and encourage cooperative, "win-win" solutions to
conflicts in the workplace |
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provide mechanisms for ensuring fair treatment in the workplace |
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reconceptualize our labor relations system and law so as to
incorporate the desirable features of the systems of our leading
competitors, and transform U.S. workplace relations and management
of human resources in keeping with the values of employee participation
and the demands of competitive product markets here and abroad |
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foster procedures for resolving employment disputes that promote
workplace justice while avoiding the delay, litigiousness and
other costs of existing litigation-oriented approaches |
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