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United States labor law
United States labor law: federal and state rules governing workers, unions, and employers. Centered on the 1935 NLRA (Wagner Act, creating the NLRB) and 1938 FLSA (minimum wage, 40-hour week), plus OSHA, Title VII, and WARN Act.
Whistleblowing
Whistleblowing: reporting suspected organizational wrongdoing to internal channels, regulators, or the public. Key frameworks include the US False Claims Act (1863), Sarbanes-Oxley (2002), Dodd-Frank SEC awards of 10-30%, OSHA anti-retaliation enforcement, and EU Directive 2019/1937.
Workers' compensation
Workers' compensation is state-regulated no-fault insurance in the United States paying medical, wage-loss, and rehabilitation benefits for occupational injuries in exchange for limited employer liability. It began with Bismarck's 1884 German laws, a 1908 federal act, and Wisconsin's 1911 program.
Wrongful dismissal
Wrongful dismissal, also called wrongful termination or wrongful discharge, is dismissal in breach of the employment contract, typically without proper notice; distinct from unfair dismissal, it is judged on contract terms and differs across UK, Canadian, and US at-will frameworks.
Yellow-dog contract
Yellow-dog contract: an early-20th-century US employment agreement requiring workers to promise not to join a union; upheld in Hitchman v. Mitchell (1917), outlawed by the Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932 and the NLRA.
Zero-hour contract
Zero-hour contract, also called casual contract, a UK employment contract with no guaranteed hours: the employer need not offer work and the worker need not accept it. Covers statutory rights, the 2015 exclusivity-clause ban, prevalence around 1.2 million workers, and the Employment Rights Act 2025 reforms.