The Labor Law is a set of rules regulating the worker’s relationship with the workplace, and is concerned with preserving the rights of workers, employers and institutions at the minimum level that is guaranteed by law, with exceptions for certain works such as the health sector, municipalities, security men, civil defense and others.

The Labor Law sets minimum wages, working hours, the worker’s right to paid weekly, annual and sick leave, guarantees the rights of working women and prohibits the employment of children under a specified age, in addition to defining systems of unfair dismissal and termination of contracts, and certainly the duties of the worker towards his work or the institution in which he works.

The Labor Law is closely related to the Health Security and the Social Insurance Law, as the first guarantees access to free or discounted medical care, while the second guarantees the worker the right to obtain income from which to live in the event of unemployment, injury, illness, disability or old age.