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UK labour law's central goal since the Trade Disputes Act 1906 has been for people to vote in their workplace, like in Parliament, [201] to achieve "a fair day's wage for a fair day's work". [202] This happens through staff organising unions , using legal participation rights , and collectively bargaining .
The history of labour law in the United Kingdom concerns the development of UK labour law, from its roots in Roman and medieval times in the British Isles up to the present. Before the Industrial Revolution and the introduction of mechanised manufacture, regulation of workplace relations was based on status, rather than contract or mediation ...
The labour legislation in force in 1910 in the various states of the Union might be classified in two general branches: (A) protective labour legislation, or laws for the aid of workers who, on account of their economic dependence, are not in a position fully to protect themselves; (B) legislation having for its purpose the fixing of the legal ...
"Child Labour during the Industrial Revolution" in Encyclopedia of British History; W.R. Cornish and G. de N. Clark. Law and Society in England 1750–1950. (Available online here). Finer, Samuel Edward. The life and times of Sir Edwin Chadwick (1952) excerpt pp 50–68. Peacock, Alan E. "The successful prosecution of the Factory Acts, 1833-55."
United Kingdom employment equality law is a body of law which legislates against prejudice-based actions in the workplace. As an integral part of UK labour law it is unlawful to discriminate against a person because they have one of the "protected characteristics", which are, age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, sex, pregnancy and ...
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The Talmudic law—in which labour law is called "laws of worker hiring"—elaborates on many more aspects of employment relations, mainly in Tractate Baba Metzi'a. In some issues the Talamud, following the Tosefta, refers the parties to the customary law: "All is as the custom of the region [postulates]".
Collective action in the United Kingdom including the right to strike in UK labour law is the main support for collective bargaining. Although the right to strike (or "industrial action" traditionally) has attained the status, since 1906, of a fundamental human right, protected in domestic case law, statute, the European Convention on Human Rights and international law, the rules in statute ...