nonwaivable
Must be kept
Nonwaivable describes a right, requirement, or protection that cannot be voluntarily given up or set aside.
Certain legal protections are nonwaivable to prevent exploitation: The statute makes the cooling-off period nonwaivable.
Employment contracts may include nonwaivable benefits that workers cannot bargain away even if they wanted to.
Incapable of being surrendered
- inviolableImpossible to breach
- unassailableImpossible to attack successfully
- sacrosanctRegarded as too important to alter
- untouchableExempt from criticism or harm
enforceable · contractual · statutory · jurisdictional · constitutional · covenant · provision · clause
Cannot be undone
- unalterableIncapable of being changed
- immutableIncapable of being changed
- unchangeableImpossible to modify
- indelibleImpossible to remove
fixed · set · established · entrenched · perpetual · enduring · lasting · inflexible
Required, not optional
- obligatoryRequired by rule
- requiredNeeded by rule
- imperativeUnavoidably necessary
- prerequisiteRequired prior condition
indispensable · necessary · unavoidable · inescapable · ineluctable · imposed · dictated · enforced
inalienable
Incapable of being surrendered
- inviolableImpossible to breach
- unassailableImpossible to attack successfully
- sacrosanctRegarded as too important to alter
untouchable · enforceable · contractual · statutory · jurisdictional · constitutional · covenant · provision · clause · stipulation
irrevocable
Cannot be undone
- unalterableIncapable of being changed
- immutableIncapable of being changed
- unchangeableImpossible to modify
indelible · fixed · set · established · entrenched · perpetual · enduring · lasting · inflexible · unmodifiable
compulsory
Required, not optional
- obligatoryRequired by rule
- requiredNeeded by rule
- imperativeUnavoidably necessary
prerequisite · indispensable · necessary · unavoidable · inescapable · ineluctable · imposed · dictated · enforced · non-negotiable
nonwaivablewaivable
Able to be foregone
negotiable · modifiable · amendable · alterable · changeable
nonwaivableoptional
Not mandatory
voluntary · discretionary · elective · non-compulsory · permissive