Practice question · Fill in the blanks
Complete the hierarchy of labor-law sources.
The statute sets the floor, the ______ improves it for the sector, and the individual contract may only modify it ______.
Word bank: convenio · upward · employer · downward
Hints
- Three layers, each improving on the one below.
- The ratchet turns in only one direction.
Show the answer
The statute sets the floor, the convenio improves it for the sector, and the individual contract may only modify it upward.
Why
Law → convenio → contract, each layer improving on the last. The one-way ratchet is the whole architecture of worker protection.
Practise Labor Law Basics
The app has 5 more questions on this lesson, and keeps your place in the course. Business I is free to start.
More questions on Labor Law Basics
- Order the life cycle of an employment relationship.
- Sort each rule by the source layer it comes from.
- Match each labor-law term to its meaning.
- A firm dismisses a worker for "low performance" but proves nothing at trial. The dismissal is also unrelated…
- Labour law voids a contract clause where a worker freely agreed to fewer holidays for higher pay. Why does…
- Which are minimum floors the individual contract cannot dig beneath?
- Unfair dismissal lets the employer choose reinstatement or compensation, while void dismissal compels…
- If a contract labels a worker "independent contractor," labor courts must respect that label even when the…