Sustainable Development of Meat Supply Chain and Human Rights

Francesco Zecchin ()
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Francesco Zecchin: Department of Law – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

A chapter in Sustainable Transition of Meat and Cured Meat Supply Chain, 2023, pp 39-50 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The essay deals with the problem of social sustainability into the meat supply chain, especially from its workers’ human rights point of view. Of course, employees’ human rights should be above all safeguard by employer. However, when the latter is involved in a supply chain, its decisions are not utterly free, but influenced both by the market and, often mainly, by the willingness of the dominant undertaking, at least indirectly. As a result, any violation of workers' human right could be tied not just to a choice of employers but also to the decisions of the company which is the leader of the supply chain. From this perspective, the writing first analyses the task of each meat supply chain's employer regarding human rights protection of its employees. Then, it checks if there is any chance to involve the dominant undertaking in relation to safeguard human rights of the employees who work for the other company of the meat supply chain, despite the “privity of the contract” principle. The research takes inspiration from both the experience of some foreign legal systems and recent European Union acts related to this field.

Keywords: Sustainable development; Meat supply chains; Human rights; Dominant undertaking; Civil liability; Duties of protection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-34977-5_4

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