labor laws

labor laws
Those constitutional provisions, statutes, ordinances, and administrative regulations which regulate labor relations in such matters as hours of labor, wages, unemployment insurance, Sunday observance, preference of wage claims in bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings, minimum wages, collective bargaining, etc. See contract labor law; labor relations acts.

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