Comparing Labour Rights Around the World - October 7, 2022

1.30PM - 2.00PM

Open Zoom for networking / Meet & greet

2:00PM - 2:02PM

Welcome

Fiona Dragstra, Director WageIndicator
Welcoming all attendants and explaining the rules of engagement.

2:02PM - 2:05PM

Explanation Video

2:05PM - 2:15PM

Keynote speech

David Plink, CEO of Top Employers Institute and Board Member of WageIndicator Foundation

Presentation: Keynote Speech David Plink

2:15PM - 2:30PM

In conversation with the Labour RIghts Index Team from Pakistan

2:30PM - 3:10PM

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Paulien Osse is the former director of WageIndicator Foundation and head of WageIndicator's Living Wage team.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherrer is Director at the International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD).

Anne Ziebarth is a Legal Officer at Better Work. Before she moved to Geneva in 2010 to work on a global scale for Better Work, she was employed by Better Factories Cambodia. She has received her J.D. from New York University. Her B.A. was received through St. Lawrence University.

Jeff Wheeler is the director of ELEVATE’s Global Trace Protocol (GTP) project, funded by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB). He has decades of experience in international and comparative labor and employment law and relations and its role in development, trade, and diplomacy.

3.10PM - 3:20PM

Conclusions

Prof. Beryl ter Haar is UW Professor and Head of the Centre for International and European Labour Law Studies (CIELLS) at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and Endowed Professor European and Comparative Labour Law at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She holds a PhD degree from Leiden University. Her research focuses on new developments in international and European labour law, including forms of new governance and transnational private regulation (CSR, IFAs/TCAs, etc.).