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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
- EnglishEveryone shall have the right to work and to freedom of work.
Everyone shall be free to choose his/her vocation and occupation, and shall have access to each workplace and post under equal conditions. (Art. 54) - CroatianSvatko ima pravo na rad i slobodu rada.
Svatko slobodno bira poziv i zaposlenje i svakomu je pod jednakim uvjetima dostupno svako radno mjesto i dužnost. (Članak 54)
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
- EnglishEvery person has the right to rest and to leisure, notably to a limitation of the duration of work and to periodic vacations [congés] as well as to the remuneration of the holidays within the conditions established by the law. (Art. 34)
- FrenchToute personne a droit au repos et aux loisirs, notamment à une limitation de la durée de travail et à des congés périodiques ainsi qu’à la rémunération des jours fériés dans les conditions fixées par la loi. (Art. 34)
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
- English1. Work constitutes a right and shall enjoy the protection of the State, which shall care for the creation of conditions of employment for all citizens and shall pursue the moral and material advancement of the rural and urban working population.
All workers, irrespective of sex or other distinctions, shall be entitled to equal pay for work of equal value.
2. General working conditions shall be determined by law, supplemented by collective labour agreements concluded through free negotiations and, in case of the failure of such, by rules determined by arbitration.
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5. The State shall care for the social security of the working people, as specified by law. (Art. 22) - Greek1. H εργασία αποτελεί δικαίωμα και προστατεύεται από το Kράτος, που μεριμνά για τη δημιουργία συνθηκών απασχόλησης όλων των πολιτών και για την ηθική και υλική εξύψωση του εργαζόμενου αγροτικού και αστικού πληθυσμού.
Όλοι οι εργαζόμενοι, ανεξάρτητα από φύλο ή άλλη διάκριση, έχουν δικαίωμα ίσης αμοιβής για παρεχόμενη εργασία ίσης αξίας.
2. Mε νόμο καθορίζονται οι γενικοί όροι εργασίας, που συμπληρώνονται από τις συλλογικές συμβάσεις εργασίας συναπτόμενες με ελεύθερες διαπραγματεύσεις και, αν αυτές αποτύχουν, με τους κανόνες που θέτει η διαιτησία.
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5. Tο Kράτος μεριμνά για την κοινωνική ασφάλιση των εργαζομένων, όπως νόμος ορίζει. ('Αρθρο 22)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe State shall protect workers' rights and strive to build balanced work relationships between both parties to the production process. It shall ensure means for collective negotiations, protect workers against work risks, guarantee the fulfillment of the requirements of security, safety and occupational health, and prohibit unfair dismissal, all as regulated by Law. (Art. 13)
- Arabicتلتزم الدّولة بحماية حقوق العمّاّل، وتعمل على بناء علاقات عمل متوازنة بين طرفي العملية الانتاجية، وتكفل سبل التّفاوض الجماعى، وتعمل على حماية العمال من مخاطر العمل وتضمن شروط الأمن والسّلامة والصّحة المهنيّة، وتحظر فصل العمال تعسفيّاً، وذلك كله على النحو الذي ينظمه القانون. (المادّة 13)
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
- 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)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English1) To improve the ability to work and to advance its economic interests, the State shall promote and support agriculture, the cultivation of alps, trades and industry; in particular, it shall promote insurance against damage that endangers work and goods and shall take measures to combat such damage.
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3) It shall support landslide control measures, afforestation and drainage operations and shall turn its attention to and promote all efforts to open up new sources of income. (Art. 20) - German1) Zur Hebung der Erwerbsfähigkeit und zur Pflege seiner wirtschaftlichen Interessen fördert und unterstützt der Staat Land- und Alpwirtschaft, Gewerbe und Industrie; er fördert insbesondere die Versicherung gegen Schäden, die Arbeit und Güter bedrohen und trifft Massregeln zur Bekämpfung solcher Schäden.
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3) Er unterstützt die Rüfeverbauungen, Aufforstungen und Entwässerungen und wird allen Bestrebungen zur Erschliessung neuer Verdienstquellen sein Augenmerk und seine Förderung zuwenden. (Art. 20)