| The 2024 Summer Olympic Games began Friday, July 26. To celebrate this international event, Littler offices around the globe will share key changes in labor and employment laws that have transpired since the last time their countries hosted the Olympic games.1 |
London has hosted the Olympics on three occasions: in 1908, then again in 1948 and most recently in 2012. During that time, the world of employment law has changed dramatically. Each London Olympics has taken place against an evolving landscape of labor laws, reflecting the socio-economic and political attitudes of their times.
The Olympics of 1908 was held during a period of modern employment law development in the UK.2 The country was at the tail-end of the industrial revolution, and advocates for workers’ rights were ever-more vocal. New laws included the Factory and Workshop Act 1901, which set limitations on the working hours for women and children, and the Old Age Pensions Act 1908, which introduced the first UK state pensions for workers over 70. Groundbreaking stuff indeed!
Fast-forward 40 years to the 1948 Olympics, and the UK was busy rebuilding itself after war, and, in the process, establishing the welfare state. At the time of those Games, the most significant recent additions to UK employment law were the National Insurance Act 1946 and the National Assistance Act 1948, which repealed the exiting “Poor Law” and established comprehensive social security throughout the UK based on a contributory...
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