Purpose of labour law legislation

Labour legislation that is adapted to the economic and social challenges of the modern world of work fulfils three crucial roles:

• it establishes a legal system that facilitates productive individual and collective employment relationships, and therefore a productive economy;
• by providing a framework within which employers, workers and their representatives can interact with regard to work-related issues, it serves as an important vehicle for achieving harmonious industrial relations based on workplace democracy;
• it provides a clear and constant reminder and guarantee of fundamental principles and rights at work which have received broad social acceptance and establishes the processes through which these principles and rights can be implemented and enforced.

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