If you are working in any company then you must know about laws of both employer and employee. This piece of information is all about employment or labour law, so check it out.

Employment law is also referred to as Labour law which is the body of laws, administrative rulings, and precedents which address the legal rights of, and restrictions on, working people and their organizations. It won’t be wrong if we say that it mediates many aspects of the relationship between trade unions, employers and employees. In majority of the countries there is no distinction of labour law except for Canada.  There are two main categories of labour law. The first one is collective labour law and the second one is individual labour law. The collective labour law relates to the tripartite relationship between employee, employer and union. While the individual labour law concerns employees' rights at work and through the contract for work.

If you go through employment and labour laws of different countries you will see lots of similarities.  In other words, the basic features of labour law in almost every country is same i.e. the rights and obligations of the worker and the employer between one another are mediated through the contract of employment between the two. In many countries there is a law or duty to provide written particulars of employment with the essentialia negotii (Latin for essential terms) to an employee. In this way the employee come to know concretely what to expect and is expected; in terms of wages, holiday rights, notice in the event of dismissal, job description and so on.

There are some countries where you will find a law stating minimum amount that a worker can be paid per hour. Such countries that have laws of this kind include Australia, Canada, China, Belgium, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Paraguay, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Spain, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, the United States and others. The minimum wage may vary from the lowest wage determined by the forces of supply and demand in a free market, and therefore acts as a price floor. In every country they have their own minimum wage laws and regulations, and while a majority of industrialized countries has a minimum wage, many developing countries have not.

In the year 1936 the minimum wage laws were first introduced nationally in the United States, in India in 1948, in France in 1950, and in the United Kingdom in the year 1999. While In the European Union, 18 out of 25 member states currently have national minimum wages.

Employment law also covers these things too, working time, occupational safety and health, anti-discrimination, unfair dismissal, and child labour. There is lot more about labour and employment law about which one can find on the web. All you need is to explore the world of web by using appropriate keywords in the search engine.