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Employment Labor Law Attorney
In many countries, the terms labor law is replaced by employment law and in fact these terms allude to the same thing. Labor law is an umbrella term for all types of employer/employee relations. This category also includes the processes of negotiation and collective bargaining. It serves to safeguard the interests of both employer and employee where a misdemeanor occurs.
During the 1930s, known as the New Deal era, the labor laws were first set up initially to review the legal situation relating to all employees in both private and public sectors. In this period there was also a move to increase the minimum wage. Recent decades have seen no significant new laws passed.
The following is a brief synopsis of some early labor laws.
The Clayton Act:
It is stated in the Act that "The labor of a human being is neither commodity nor article of commerce." It further said that nothing contained in the federal antitrust laws would be detrimental to the existence of labor organizations and “nor shall such organizations, or the Members thereof, be held or construed to be illegal combinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade under the anti-trust laws”.
The Railway Act:
Passed in 1926, the Railway Act required railway employers to allow collective bargaining and it forbade discrimination against unions. Originally pertaining to interstate railroads and their related undertakings, its 1936 revision added airlines to its list. Under the labor law it was forbidden to interfere with the setting up of a labor union or to withdraw any financial or other type of support. It was also illegal to prevent employees from engaging in collective bargaining as per their lawful rights. Employers were also forbidden to lay down any conditions of employment that might in any way jeopardize union membership. However the law also stated that this should refer to the prohibition of union contracts. These demanded that union membership should be a precondition for employment in a company. This provision in fact allowed closed and union shops. (In closed shops only existing members were eligible to be hired and in union shops it was mandatory for new employees to become union members).
It also became illegal to in any way to discriminate or dismiss an employee for having filed charges or given testimony under the Act. Finally it was forbidden to employers to refuse collective bargaining with unions who represented a company’s employees.
I changed all wording I could but can’t change the actual acts! This can’t be helped unless Gus wants to eliminate the actual acts in this article. I have made a few revisions here. MJ