Worker (broader than EE) may refer to selfemployed people & those working in the service & under the control of another, regardless of rank, title, or nature of work. - any member of the labor force whether employed/unemployed Employee a salaried person working for another who controls or supervises the means, manner or method of doing the work. Labor Law & Social Legislation Social legislation includes laws that provide particular kinds of protection/benefits to society in furtherance of social justice. ? Labor laws are necessarily social legislation Social Justice as the Aim Social justice humanization of laws & the equalization of social & economic forces by the State so that social justice in its rational & objectively secular conception may at leas be approximated - promotion of the welfare of the ppl, the adoption by the Govt of measures calculated to insure economic stability of all the component elements of society through the maintenance of proper economic & social equilibrium in the interrelations of the members of the community, constitutionally, through the adoption of measures legally justifiable, or extra-constitutionally, through the exercise of powers underlying the existence of all govts. 1987 Consti: protects the rights of workers & promote their welfare Basic rights of workers guaranteed by the Constitution 1. to organize themselves 2. to conduct collective bargaining/negotiation w/ mgt; 3. to engage in peaceful concerted activities, including to strike in accordance w/ law; and 4. to participate in policy & decision-making processes affecting rights & benefits Other Consti provisions that protect the Rs/promote the welfare of workers ? R to form unions, assocs or societies for purposes not contrary to law ? R of self-org even for govt EES.. No officer/Ee of the Civil Service shall be removed/suspended ? for cause. Temporary EES of the Govt shall be given such protection as may be provided by law ? Regular farmworkers shall have the R to own directly/collectively the lands they till. Landless farmworkers may be resettled by the govt in its own agri estates. ? Continuing program of urban land reform & housing ? Protection for working women taking into acct their maternal functio