Employment Law

Summary

The history of the employment law begins in the 19th century.
Through the industrialization a lot of workers began to inter-organize. In order to this, government started legislate rights and restrictions for workers. Later were developed sickness, unemployment and retirement insurances. In 20th century there were passed more legislations in work area, such as guarantied minimum wage, women and men discrimination and others.
There are big differences between employees and self-employed people because employees have more legal rights than self-employed. However, there are passed a lot of acts to protect all workers from sex and raise discrimination. In addition to this, there are EC law which sometimes gives better protection than English law. In EC law now are discussing about steady minimum wage, about days in which trading should not be allowed and about different rights to strike in different countries.
Japan employment law has some differences from Western countries employment law. In this country there are fewer rights to workers but more guaranties from employers.
To sum up, all countries have employment laws and in most of them it is different but what is important that despite it’s differences employment law protects workers rights.