Labour relations

Anti-capitalism encompasses a wide variety of movements, ideas and attitudes that oppose capitalism.

A leave of absence (LOA) is a period of time that one must be away from one's primary job, while maintaining the status of employee.

Overtime is the amount of time someone works beyond normal working hours.

Wage labour (also wage labor in American English) is the socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer, where the worker sells their labour under a formal or informal employment contract.

Precarity is a precarious existence, lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare.

A lockout is a temporary work stoppage or denial of employment initiated by the management of a company during a labor dispute.

The workweek and weekend are those complementary parts of the week devoted to labour and rest, respectively.

The working poor are working people whose incomes fall below a given poverty line.

(For the holiday in Australia, see Labour Day.) The eight-hour day movement or 40-hour week movement, also known as the short-time movement, was started by James Deb and had its origins in the Industrial Revolution in Britain, where industrial production in large factories transformed working life.

Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries.

Power harassment is harassment or unwelcome attention of a political nature, often occurring in the environment of a workplace including hospitals, schools and universities.

United States labor law sets the rights and duties for employees, labor unions, and employers in the United States.

The Wassenaar Agreement was an agreement reached in 1982 between employers' organisations and labour unions in the Netherlands to restrain wage growth in return for the adoption of policies to combat unemployment and inflation, such as reductions in working hours and the expansion of part-time employment.

Labor relations is the study and practice of managing unionized employment situations.

Social Movement Unionism is a trend of theory and practice in contemporary trade unionism.

The National Day of Mourning, or Workers’ Mourning Day is observed in Canada on 28 April.

An unfair labor practice (不当労働行為 futouroudoukoui) is discrimination by an employer in Japan against a worker who is associated with a union, or refusal by an employer to negotiate with a trade union, or interference in the activities of a union.

A user revolt is a social conflict in which users of a website collectively and openly protest a website host's or administrator's instructions for using the website.

An open shop is a place of employment at which one is not required to join or financially support a union (closed shop) as a condition of hiring or continued employment.