Employment Law
Employment Law is a broad area including all areas of the employer/employee relationship except the negotiation process covered by labor law and collective bargaining.Many employment laws (e.g., minimum wage regulations, employment discrimination) were enacted as protective labor legislation.
Other employment laws take the form of public insurance, such as unemployment compensation.
Source: LII / Legal Information Institute.
Employment law is a broad area encompassing all areas of the employer/employee relationship except the negotiation process covered by labor law and collective bargaining.
See, Labor Law & Collective Bargaining and Arbitration.
Employment law consists of thousands of Federal and state statutes, administrative regulations, and judicial decisions.
Many employment laws (e.g., minimum wage regulations) were enacted as protective labor legislation.
Other employment laws take the form of public insurance, such as unemployment compensation.
Specific areas within the broad category of employment law covered under their own topical entries include:
- Pay.
- Working hours.
- Collective bargaining.
- Employment discrimination.
- Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
- Unemployment compensation.
- Pensions.
- Workplace safety.
- Worker's compensation.
Pay
- The National Minimum Wage.
- Non-payment, deductions and payslips.
- Performance-related pay.
Working hours
- Working time limits.
- Flexible working and work-life balance.
- Overtime
Employment contracts and conditions
- Contracts of employment.
- Changes to employment conditions.
- Fixed-term work.
- Part-time work.
Time off and holidays
- Holiday entitlements.
- Calculating holiday entitlement.
- Time off for dependants.
- Time off for public duties.
Types of work or employment
- Agency workers - an introduction.
- Agency worker employment rights.
- Are you a 'worker', 'employee' or 'self-employed'?.
- Fixed-term work.
Discrimination at work
- Introduction to discrimination.
- Age discrimination.
- Sex discrimination and equal pay.
- Bullying in the workplace.
Trade unions
- Your right to join (or not to join) a trade union.
- Time off for trade union duties and activities.
- Industrial action.
- Picketing and picket lines.
Health and safety at work
- Employees' health and safety responsibilities.
- Employers' health and safety responsibilities.
- Workplace stress.
- Health and safety representatives.