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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishAll persons have the right to work, to their promotion through work, and to just income which shall guarantee a living befitting human dignity for themselves and their families, as well as to reasonable limitation of the working day, weekly rest and paid vacation. (Art. 29)
- CatalanTota persona té dret al treball, a la promoció per mitjà del treball, a una remuneració que garanteixi al treballador I a la seva família una existència conforme a la dignitat humana, així com a la limitació raonable de la jornada laboral, al repòs setmanal I a les vacances pagades. (Art. 29)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishAll workers will have the right to one day of rest after six consecutive days of work, and to annual paid vacations, of which the extent and opportunity will be regulated by the law, but in no case will include less than two weeks for every fifty weeks of continuous service; all without prejudice to the very qualified exceptions that the legislator establishes. (Art. 59)
- SpanishTodos los trabajadores tendrán derecho a un día de descanso después de seis días consecutivos de trabajo, y a vacaciones anuales pagadas, cuya extensión y oportunidad serán reguladas por la ley, pero en ningún caso comprenderán menos de dos semanas por cada cincuenta semanas de servicio continuo; todo sin perjuicio de las excepciones muy calificadas que el legislador establezca. (Art. 59)
Employment Rights and Protection
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(22) every person shall have the right and the obligation to work;
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(22) Tout homme a le droit et le devoir de travailler;
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Employment Rights and Protection
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10. A Bhutanese citizen shall have the right to practice any lawful trade, profession or vocation.
11. A Bhutanese citizen shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value.
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༡༠) འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་ཅིག་ལུ་ ཁྲིམས་མཐུན་གྱི་འཚོ་གཡོག་ ཡང་ན་ ཁྱད་གཡོག་ ལག་རྩལ་ ག་ཅི་ནང་ཨིན་རུང་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ནིའི་ཐོབ་དབང་ཡོད།
༡༡) འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་ཅིག་ལུ་ ལཱ་གི་ཁྱད་ཆོས་འདྲ་མཉམ་དང་བསྟུན་པའི་གླ་ཕོགས་འདྲ་མཉམ་གྱི་ ཐོབ་དབང་ཡོད།
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Employment Rights and Protection
- English(1) Everybody has the right to the free choice of her profession and the training for that profession, as well as the right to engage in enterprise and pursue other economic activity.
(2) Conditions and limitations may be set by law upon the right to engage in certain professions or activities.
(3) Everybody has the right to acquire the means of her livelihood by work. The State shall provide an adequate level of material security to those citizens who are unable, through no fault of their own, to exercise this right; conditions shall be provided for by law.
… (Charter, Art. 26) - Czech(1) Každý má právo na svobodnou volbu povolání a přípravu k němu, jakož i právo podnikat a provozovat jinou hospodářskou činnost.
(2) Zákon může stanovit podmínky a omezení pro výkon určitých povolání nebo činností.
(3) Každý má právo získávat prostředky pro své životní potřeby prací. Občany, kteří toto právo nemohou bez své viny vykonávat, stát v přiměřeném rozsahu hmotně zajišťuje; podmínky stanoví zákon.
… (Listina, Čl. 26)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishWhereas the People of Dominica—
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(b) respect the principles of social justice and therefore believe that the operation of the economic system should result in so distributing the material resources of the community as to subserve the common good, that there should be adequate means of livelihood for all, that labour should not be exploited or forced by economic necessity to operate in inhumane conditions but that there should be opportunity for advancement on the basis of recognition of merit, ability and integrity;
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Employment Rights and Protection
- English
Every citizen has the right to decent conditions of work and to an equitable remuneration.
No one may be deprived of their income, by virtue of taxation, beyond a quota of which the level is determined by the law. (Art. 15) - French
Tout citoyen a droit à des conditions de travail décentes et à une rémunération équitable.
Nul ne peut être privé de ses revenus, du fait de la fiscalité, au-delà d'une quotité dont le niveau est déterminé par la loi. (Art. 15)
Employment Rights and Protection
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(6) The State shall afford equality of economic opportunity to all citizens; and, in particular, the State shall take all necessary steps so as to ensure the full integration of women into the mainstream of the economic development of Ghana.
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(10) The State shall safeguard the health, safety and welfare of all persons in employment, and shall establish the basis for the full deployment of the creative potential of all Ghanaians.
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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishEveryone is free to pursue the occupation of his choosing. This right may however be restricted by law, if such restriction is required with regard to the public interest.
… (Art. 75) - IcelandicÖllum er frjálst að stunda þá atvinnu sem þeir kjósa. Þessu frelsi má þó setja skorður með lögum, enda krefjist almannahagsmunir þess.
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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishA system of professional training [formación] is established for the preparation and qualification of [the] human resources.
The law will regulate the scope, extent and form in which the system will be put into force.
The contract of apprenticeship will be regulated by the law, with the objective of assuring the apprentice training for an occupation [oficio], dignified treatment, equitable remuneration, and benefits for pension [previsión] and social security. (Art. 40) - SpanishSe establece un sistema de formación profesional para la capacitación y calificación de los recursos humanos.
La ley regulará los alcances, extensión y forma en que el sistema debe ser puesto en vigor.
El contrato de aprendizaje será regulado por la ley, con el objeto de asegurar al aprendiz enseñanza de un oficio, tratamiento digno, retribución equitativa y beneficios de previsión y seguridad social. (Art. 40)