Service and Employment Laws (labour law) dictate the duties of an employer and the rights of an employee, both in the private as well as public sector. They regulate disputes between employers and employees.
The general tendency in the modern development of labour law has been the strengthening of statutory requirements and collective contractual relations at the expen se of rights and obligations created by individual employment relationships. How important these latter remain depends, of course, on the degree of personal freedom in the given society as well as the autonomy of both employer and worker allowed by the actual operation of the economy. In such matters as hours of work, health and safety conditions, or industrial relations, the statutory or collective elements may define most.
of the substance of the rights and obligations of the individual worker, while with respect to such things as the duration of his appointment, his level and extent of responsibility, or his place in the scale of remuneration, these elements may provide what is essentially a framework for individual agreement.