The subject of labor law regulation is labor relations as legal relations whose subjects are workers on the one side and their employers on the other, and the mutual rights and obligations of these subjects form the content of that legal or labor relationship. The civil service relationship is also a legal relationship whose subjects are civil servants and employees on the one side and the state or local or regional self-government unit as their employer on the other. The official relationship is considered a specific employment relationship, given that it contains all the essential characteristics of the employment relationship: voluntary establishment, personality and professionalism to carry out the labor, subordination of employees to the employer, labor payment and labor continuity. Every legal relationship, and thus also the labor or official relationship, is regulated by legal norms as mandatory rules of conduct that bind both parties to the labor or official relationship. These rules of conduct for the subjects of employment or official relations are contained in laws passed by the state or general acts passed by employers in accordance with the laws. Labor relations are regulated as a fundamental regulation by the Labor Act, which in civil service relations as a specific type of labor relations applies only to issues not regulated by the Law on Civil Servants and State Employees and the Law on Civil Servants and State Employees in Local and District (Regional) Self-Government and with regulations harmonized with those laws, that is, when they refer to the application of the Labor Act as a general labor regulation. Despite this, there are numerous similarities but also certain differences between labor and official relations.