labor reforms
Worker protection updates
Labor reforms are changes to laws, policies, or practices governing work and employment.
These typically address wages, working hours, safety conditions, union rights, or worker protections.
The phrase usually implies improvements for workers, though it can also describe deregulation efforts: The administration pushed labor reforms to strengthen collective bargaining rights.
Critics argued the labor reforms favored employers over employees.
- minimum wageLowest lawful hourly rate
- fair wagesReasonable compensation for labor
- minimum wage lawsLegislated lowest permissible pay
- equal payMatching compensation regardless of identity
- parental leaveJob-protected time for newborns
eight hour day · salary transparency · anti-discrimination laws · anti-discrimination · overtime regulations · workplace safety · gig economy · job security · right to organize · strike action · whistleblower protections · air quality regulations · cost-of-living adjustments · union rights · fire safety codes · living wage · employment contracts · worker cooperatives
- labor historyAFL-CIO, workers, CIO, unionization, industrial workers
- Labor Politicsunionization, union contracts, union elections, right to work, collective bargaining
- labor relationscollective agreement, union elections, bargaining, union shop, union contract
- Modern FranceCharles de Gaulle, National Assembly, French politics, National Front, far right
- reformsderegulation, privatising, liberalization
- Chilean Economypeso, copper mining, GDP, economic growth, GDP growth
labor reformsstatus quo
Existing condition of affairs
no change · business as usual · entrenchment · tradition · conservatism
labor reformsderegulation
Removing governmental business restrictions
union busting · right-to-work laws · austerity measures · labor exploitation · benefit cuts
labor, reforms, labors, labored, laboring, laborer, laborers, laborious, laboriously