Previously in this course, we encountered a question that we now address. That question is:

Given that most truly international labor and employment law is "soft" law, what factors help to determine when a practitioner of IHRM must take that form of soft law as seriously, or at least almost as seriously, as "hard" law?

After we first encountered that question, we examined the workings (and some specific cases involving):

• The ILO and UN
• The OECD
• Corporate Codes of Conduct
• Global Framework Agreements

Using the lessons leading up to this assignment as a source of information, compose an essay answering the provided question.