Employment law (summary)

Employment law regulates relations between employer and employee. These laws recognize and limit the right of workers to strike, deal with health and safety in the workplace, "limits upon working hours and ages". The most common point of this law is that almost all countries "developed systems of insurance to protect workers during sickness, unemployment and retirement". Employment law states that at the workplace should be equal work conditions, "requires equal pay for work of equal value", "ensure equality of opportunity for employee and job applicants whatever their race or sex". Also, this legislation gives the right to employee to know in advance that he will be dismissed and gives the right to compensation if he is dismissed unfairly or because of redundancy. For women there is a right to "time off in order to have a baby and the right to return to work within a certain period after having the baby". To add to this, these laws state that it is allowed to open the businesses, employment law guarantees a standard minimum wage and a right to have holiday. In comparison Western employment law with Japanese, despite the labor shortage, the not payed overtime work, Japan ensures better security for employees and better salaries...