1.   Employees are sometimes shareholders through stock-ownership schemes, but are mainly taken care of through labour laws and guarantees of lifetime employment.

2.   Labour law application for full-time employees generally applies to the full extent also for part-time employees.

3.   The new thinking in Brussels is that labour laws should focus on general objectives and leave details to national governments.

4.   The social union was to be characterized by a system of labour law which corresponds to the social market economy and a comprehensive system of social security.

5.   Allied to the welfare cutbacks was a radical change in labour law, the controversial Employment Contracts Bill, due to be introduced in May.

6.   The debate is, of course, a fundamental one in labour law.

7.   In South Africa domestic workers are not covered by labour laws, but SADWU has drawn up a schedule of wages and benefits it believes employers should observe.

8.   A lawyer specialising in labour law welcomed the amendments because he said the Government was now stricter on compliance of the law.

9.   Any amendments and updates to the labour laws can be easily incorporated for a small fee.

10.   Deputy Human Resources Minister Datuk Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir said labour law is one of the main factors considered by foreign investors before making their investment decision.