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labour law

British  

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The states have fewer labour law restraints than in the West and total alignment between airlines and airport operators.

From Barron's Mar. 2, 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 Arthur Bartlett Maurice

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