Labor Law

Labor law, or "droit du travail" in French, encompasses the set of legal rules governing individual and collective work relationships between private employers and their employees, who work under their authority in exchange for a salary. This area of law is designed to organize professional relationships, addressing both "individual labor relations" and "collective labor relations."

Labor law, along with social security law, forms the broader category known as "social law" (droit social). It regulates individual relationships between employers and employees, as well as collective relationships between employers or employers' associations and groups of workers. These collective relationships are expressed through the creation of unions, the organization of collective actions such as strikes, collective bargaining, and the election of members to bodies like the Social and Economic Committee (CSE).