labour law

British  

noun

1. those areas of law which appertain to the relationship between employers and employees and between employers and trade unions

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Example Sentences

The commission has insisted labour law will not be touched by the proposal and that any business will have to follow the rules based on where they are headquartered.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

But most of China's 80 million gig workers have "no real access to labour law protections because of their ambiguous employment status," said Ou Lin, a law professor at Britain's Lancaster University.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

Another person said, "Offering an actor the choice of an intimacy coordinator instead of immediately hiring one feels like a labour law violation."

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2024

In January of this year he was sentenced to six months in prison for violations of labour law, which he denied, and in June he and 13 others were indicted on embezzlement charges.

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2024

There was prosperity for a time, and rich promise, until the Prince ran against the callous, unsympathetic Occident in the shape of the contract labour law.

From Fifth Avenue by Maurice, Arthur Bartlett