Nguyễn Xuân Mỹ Hiền

 ThS, Giảng viên Khoa Luật Quốc tế, Trường Đại học Luật TP. Hồ Chí Minh (Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

To mitigate the detrimental impacts of globalization on worker rights, the number of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), including labor regulations, has quickly increased, resulting in a trend toward incorporating labor provisions into new-generation FTAs. Along with the European Union (EU), the United States (US) is considered as one of the most influential, having pioneered establishing innovative models for incorporating labor-related clauses in FTAs. The article analyzes and compares the US approaches to integrating labor standards provisions into FTAs, focusing on the goals, substantive rules, and international labor standards and labor law implementation. The article next examines the impact of these trends on the goal of labor rights protection.

Keywords: labor; non-trade rules; implementation; new- generation free trade agreement; US