LABOR LAW

 LABOR LEGISLATION – consists of statutes, regulations and

jurisprudence governing the relations between capital and
labor, by providing for certain employment standards and a
legal framework for negotiating, adjusting and
administering those standards and other incidents of
employment.
 LABOR STANDARDS LAW – that w/c sets out the least or
basic terms, conditions and benefits of employment that
employers must provide or comply w/ and to w/c
employees are entitled as a matter of legal right.
 LABOR STANDARDS – are the minimum requirements
prescribed by existing laws, rules and regulations relating to
wages, hours of work, cost-of-living allowance, and other
monetary and welfare benefits, including occupational,
safety and health standards.
 LABOR RELATIONS LAW – that w/c defines the status, rights
and duties, and the institutional mechanisms that govern
the individual and collective interactions of employers,
employees or their representatives.
 SOCIAL LEGISLATION – are those laws that provide
particular kinds of protection or benefits to society or
segments thereof in furtherance of social justice.
 The AIM and the REASON and, therefore the
JUSTIFICATION of labor laws is SOCIAL JUSTICE.
 SOCIAL JUSTICE – is neither communism, nor despotism,
not atomism nor anarchy, but humanization of laws and the
equalization of social and economic forces by the State so
that justice in its rational and objectively secular conception
may at least be approximated.
- means the promotion of the welfare of all the people, the
adoption by the Govt of measures calculated to insure
economic stability of all the component elements of society
through the maintenance of proper economic and social
equilibrium in the interrelations of the members of the
community, constitutionally, through the adoption of
measures legally justifiable, or extra-constitutionally,
through the exercise of powers underlying the existence of
all govts, on the time honored the principle of SALUS
POPULI EST SUPREMA LEX.