labour court
noun[C]
LAWukusin the UK, acourtoflawthatdealswithdisagreementsbetweenemployersandemployees:
According to thedecisionsoflabourcourts,agencyworkersare not theemployeesof theuserfirm.
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employment tribunal
Examplesoflabour court
labour court
Thelabourcourtsided with the worker, directed he be reinstated, with 50% back wages.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.We are developing what people call alabourcourt.
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Thelabourcourtcan deal with complaints relatively informally and speedily.
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Secondly, the worker is able to challenge his dismissal in thelabourcourtwhere the employer has to prove grounds for dismissal even in such a case.
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Individual workers who believe that they have been denied their statutory rights should be able to obtain an effective remedy from what, in effect, is alabourcourt.
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British trade unions, he argued, did not want ' labour courts outside the industry.
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In other countries where this machinery exists appeals are possible to labour courts against such decisions.
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I believe that a little inquiry across the world would show that that is not the way in which labour courts work generally.
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I think we should have a system of special labour courts, with specialised judges, assisted by assessors from both sides of industry, in order to do this.
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Their annual works agreements cover rising prices and in any case the labour courts ensure that works agreements are carried out by all parties concerned on both sides of industry.
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