worker rights
Employee legal safeguards
Worker rights are the legal protections and entitlements afforded to employees—minimum wage, safe working conditions, the right to organize, protection from discrimination and wrongful termination.
The term often appears in debates about labor policy and globalization: The trade deal included provisions on worker rights.
Also called workers' rights or labor rights.
- fair wagesReasonable compensation for labor
- minimum wageLowest lawful hourly rate
- living wageIncome covering necessities
- hazard payCompensation for dangerous duties
- union membershipJoining a labor organization
salary transparency · labor standards · whistleblower protections · collective bargaining · labor organizing · right to organize · labor laws · trade union · shop floor · severance packages · pension plans · OSHA standards · strike actions · wrongful termination · healthcare benefits · overtime · time clock · break room
- left-wingprogressive, liberal, social democracy, social democrat, democratic socialism
- employmentjob, jobs, career, careers, interview
- laborlabor, labor union, work, labor force, laborers
- activismboycotts, activists, activist, advocate, demonstrating
- rightscivil liberties, right, immunity, liberty, constitutional guarantees
- human rightshuman dignity, civil liberties, right to liberty, right to life, right to vote
worker rightslabor exploitation
Unfair treatment of workers
corporate power · employer rights · union busting · strikebreaking · at-will employment
worker rightsderegulation
Removing governmental business restrictions
neoliberalism · austerity · trickle-down economics · individualism · corporatism
worker rightsslavery
Ownership of people
indentured servitude · serfdom · forced labor · chattel slavery · debt bondage