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Related Keywords
- Child labor
- Collective bargaining
- Contract
- General strike
- Industrial relations
- Industrial revolution
- Inequality of bargaining power
- International Trade Union Confederation
- International Workers Association
- International comparisons of labor unions
- Labour economics
- Labour movement
- Labour rights
- Law
- List of federations of trade unions
- List of strikes
- List of trade unions
- New Unionism
- Occupational safety and health
- Proletariat
- Sitdown strike
- Social Movement Unionism
- Socialism
- Strike action
- Sympathy strike
- Syndicalism
- Timeline of labor issues and events
- Trade union
- Trade unions
- Working people
- World Federation of Trade Unions
Employment Law
Images : Employment Law
General Description
Labour law or "labor", or "employment" law is the body of laws, administrative rulings, and precedents which address the legal rights of, and restrictions on, working people and their organizations. As such, it mediates many aspects of the relationship between trade unions, employers and employees. In Canada, employment laws related to unionized workplaces are differentiated from those relating to particular individuals. In most countries however, no such distinction is made. However, there are two broad categories of labour law. First, collective labour law relates to the tripartite relationship between employee, employer and union. Second, individual labour law concerns employees' rights at work and through the contract for work. The labour movement has been instrumental in the enacting of laws protecting labour rights in the 19th and 20th centuries. Labour rights have been integral to the social and economic development since the industrial revolution.

