Employee Legal Awareness Day is on February 13, and it is all about your rights as an employee. An Australian lawyer named Paul Brennan established this day to create awareness of the legal problems to the employees and small businesses and reduce the risk of them through legal education. The day encourages all employees to be aware of their employment rights, as well as company policies provided in your employer’s handbook.
Employment or labor laws mediate the relationship between the employer, employee, and the union. Both employees and employers are encouraged to know and understand these laws to avoid breaching legal rights.
Labor laws began with the need to want to abolish child labor in the late 1700s. In 1784, an outbreak of fever in Cotton Mills near Manchesterraised concerns against child labor dangerous work conditions. A local inquiry was instituted by the justices of the peace for Lancashire, and the result recommended the limitation of children’s working hours.
In 1802, the first major step towards the protection of labor was taken with the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act. It limited working hours to twelve a day and abolished night work, requiring the provision of a basic level of education for all apprentices, as well as adequate sleeping accommodation and clothing. The Cotton Mills and Factories Act 1819 was the outcome of the efforts of the industrialist Robert Owen and prohibited child labor under nine years of age and limited the working hours to...
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