Modification of the Mercosur Social-Labor Declaration (2015): an advance in the construction of the social dimension of the integration process

• Autor: Castello, Alejandro
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2016
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/16536
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/iusetveritas/article/view/16536
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Derecho Internacional del Trabajo; Cláusulas Sociales; Cartas Sociales; Dumping Social; Comercio Internacional; Integración Económica; Tratados de Libre Comercio; Dimensión Social; Derechos Autoejecutables; Cláusulas Programáticas; Derechos Fundamentales; International Labor Law; Social Clauses; Social Charters; Social Dumping; International Trade; Economic Integration; Free Trade Agreements; Social Dimension; Self-Executing Rights; Programmatic Clauses; Fundamental Labor Rights; Decent Work

This contribution analyzes the role fulfilled by International Labor Standards and, specifically, by social clauses in Free Trade Conventions and Agreements, as a way of preventing social dumping and building a social dimension in the globalization and regionalization of economy. The author offers the case of the MERCOSUR Labor and Social Declaration, issued in 2015, which amends that of the year 1998, studying its contents, legal efficacy and supervision mechanisms. He emphasizes the fact that social charters generally limit themselves to recognizing fundamental or basic labor rights already found in the legislation of the member countries, but which are nonetheless useful for hindering attempts to deregulate or relax social and labor provisions.