The whole set of laws and rules that aim to regulate and order the different labor systems that characterize the human being is known by the name of labor law. Unlike what happens with many other sets of laws, the labor law could be said that it does not have a previously customary basis or established around previous custom since it arises as a result of the demands of workers and laborers only between the centuries XIX and XX.
The main objective of labor law is to establish and organize all the circumstances, phenomena and situations that may occur in such an area so that the activity in question can be carried out safely and appropriately for the two parties involved in it: the worker. and the employer. However, one of the main elements that labor law seeks to establish is safety for the worker since he is in a minority position vis-à-vis his employer. Labor justice is interested in ensuring the worker (although not only him) that his rights are fulfilled and respected, such as paid vacations, licenses, number of hours to work, the establishment of a minimum wage that can be adjusted in case of being necessary, family allowances, social security, hygiene and occupational safety conditions, etc.
It is considered that labor law began to develop from the phenomena of the Industrial Revolution. Faced with the disproportionate advance of abuses by employers and the consequent protests of large masses of workers, modern states had to establish more or less specific regulations that aimed to ensure the worker compliance with certain standards. By placing these duties in writing, the worker began to see himself officially protected against any possible abuse by those who employ him.
