Family-friendly Employment Laws (Re)assessed: The Potential of Care Ethics
本文重新评估了针对怀孕工人和照护者的家庭友好型就业权利及争议解决程序,指出法律框架与工作现实及性别平等目标存在矛盾,并基于关怀伦理提出改进路径。
Abstract In light of various reforms in recent years, this article provides a (re)assessment of the broad package of family-friendly employment rights and relevant dispute resolution procedure now available to pregnant workers and working carers. It exposes how the realities of working life for many pregnant workers and carers and the long standing desire to promote gender equality in informal care-work remain at odds with the legal framework. An argument is presented in favour of an approach that, based upon the concept of care ethics, better engages with the impact of the provisions upon crucial interdependent care relationships.