After reviewing proposals for voluntary regulation, Santoro urges the World Trade Organization to adopt an enforceable code of international labor standards.
It is not considered to include voluntary regulation that may be accomplished in the private sphere.
The overwhelming majority of the group, which is chaired by Magnus Magnusson, chairman of Scottish Natural Heritage, backs voluntary regulation.
The two-tier code was a voluntary regulation that did little to protect staff while deterring responsible employers from delivering public service contracts.
THE Press Council yesterday unveiled wide-ranging proposals to improve its efficiency and win public and political confidence in voluntary regulation of the press.
Christine A. Varney, a member of the Federal Trade Commission, challenged the industry last June to come up with satisfactory voluntary regulations.
"Oh, look, we're in compliance with the voluntary regulations, but Company X isn't."
Attempts to agree on voluntary regulation were a miserable failure.
Some of our other laws may have similar adverse effects, such as the recent trend towards voluntary regulation of the automobile industry.
The last six months have made it abundantly clear that voluntary regulation does not work.