James Brudney was quoted in a Newsweek article about labor protections against sexual abuse of farm workers in Mexico.
Labor experts noted that such codes are hard to enforce, particularly in foreign countries with more lax labor regulations.
“This isn’t a code of conduct, it’s a set of aspirations,” said James Brudney, the Joseph Crowley Chair in Labor and Employment Law at Fordham University School of Law. “You can be confident that there’s no labor organization in Mexico protecting workers like there is in the U.S. They’re participating in a production chain that has a history of abuses.”