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185.04 LABOR NOT A COMMODITY OR ARTICLE OF COMMERCE.
The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce, and the right to enter
into the relation of employer and employee, or the right to change that relation; or to assume and
create a new relation for employer and employee; or to perform and carry on business with
any person in any place; or to work and labor as an employee, shall be held and construed to
be a personal, and not a property, right. In all cases involving the violation of the contract of
employment, either by the employee or employer, where no irreparable damage is about to be
committed upon the property or property right of either, no injunction shall be granted, but the
parties shall be left to their remedy at law.
History: (4258) 1917 c 493 s 4
The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce, and the right to enter
into the relation of employer and employee, or the right to change that relation; or to assume and
create a new relation for employer and employee; or to perform and carry on business with
any person in any place; or to work and labor as an employee, shall be held and construed to
be a personal, and not a property, right. In all cases involving the violation of the contract of
employment, either by the employee or employer, where no irreparable damage is about to be
committed upon the property or property right of either, no injunction shall be granted, but the
parties shall be left to their remedy at law.
History: (4258) 1917 c 493 s 4
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