labor legislation
Employment law statutes
Labor legislation refers to laws regulating the relationship between employers and workers.
These laws typically address wages, working hours, safety conditions, collective bargaining rights, and discrimination: The New Deal brought sweeping labor legislation to American workers.
The term encompasses everything from minimum wage statutes to occupational health regulations.
- overtime payCompensation for excess hours
- time and a halfFifty percent wage bonus
- forty hour weekStandard employment duration
- OSHA complianceMeeting workplace safety standards
- equal payMatching compensation regardless of identity
minimum wage · workplace inspections · shop floor · whistleblower protections · hazard prevention · accident reporting · wage theft · back pay · living wage · family medical leave · unionization · disability accommodations · protections · strike rights · settlement agreements · benefits · grievance · reform
- labor economicsjob market, employment rates, unemployment rates, employment data, employment statistics
- labor lawlabour law, worker rights, bargaining rights, employment law, work contracts
- labor unionsunion dues, trade union, union membership, union shops, union card
labor legislationderegulation
Removing governmental business restrictions
at-will employment · right-to-work laws · laissez-faire · free market