How Labor Arbitration has Changed the Workplace Landscape in Cambodia - Dispute Resolution Journal - Vol. 64, No. 2
Arnold Zack is a mediator and arbitrator of labor-management disputes, a teacher at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, and author of 12 books on dispute resolution and international labor issues. He is a member of the Visiting Committee on Human Resources at Harvard University, and he chairs he Executive Committee of the Alliance for Education in Dispute Resolution. Mr. Zack, a former president of the National Academy of Arbitrators, has been appointed to four Presidential Emergency Boards. He co-chaired the Due Process Task Force, which produced the Due Process Protocol for the Mediation and Arbitration of Statutory Employment Disputes. He has received numerous awards, including the Distinguished Service Award for Labor Management Arbitration, the Whitney North Seymour Medal of the American Arbitration Association, and the Cushing Gavin Award of the Archdiocese of Boston.
Originally from Dispute Resolution Journal
A highly respected labor arbitrator describes how Cambodia’s efforts to develop a labor arbitration program with the assistance of the International Labour Organization has become a model for developing countries to follow.
Americans tend to assume that labor-management arbitration is used worldwide for resolving workplace disputes because it has the following advantages: it is cheaper and faster than conventional litigation, avoids tiresome, costly and time-consuming legal appeals and permits the disputants to select their mutual choice of expert arbitrator. But labor-management arbitration is rarely used in other countries. Surprisingly, one exception is Cambodia, which, with the assistance of the International Labour Organization (ILO), implemented an impressive workplace rights program in 2002 that included collective bargaining and arbitration to resolve disputes. That program is now funded by the World Bank.