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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishNo person shall be hindered in the enjoyment of his or her right to work, that is to say, the right to free choice of employment. (Art. 149A)
Employment Rights and Protection
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The law determines the fundamental principles:
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• of labor law, … (Art. 101) - French…
La loi détermine les principes fondamentaux :
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- du droit du travail, … (Art. 101)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishCitizens of the People's Republic of China have the right as well as the duty to work.
Using various channels, the state creates conditions for employment, strengthens labor protection, improves working conditions and, on the basis of expanded production, increases remuneration for work and social benefits.
Work is the glorious duty of every able-bodied citizen. All working people in State-owned enterprises and in urban and rural economic collectives should perform their tasks with an attitude consonant with their status as masters of the country. The State promotes socialist labor emulation, and commends and rewards model and advanced workers. The State encourages citizens to take part in voluntary labor.
The state provides necessary vocational training to citizens before they are employed. (Art. 42) - Chinese中华人民共和国公民有劳动的权利和义务。
国家通过各种途径,创造劳动就业条件,加强劳动保护,改善劳动条件,并在发展生产的基础上,提高劳动报酬和福利待遇。
劳动是一切有劳动能力的公民的光荣职责。国有企业和城乡集体经济组织的劳动者都应当以国家主人翁的态度对待自己的劳动。国家提倡社会主义劳动竞赛,奖励劳动模范和先进工作者。国家提倡公民从事义务劳动。
国家对就业前的公民进行必要的劳动就业训练。 (第四十二条)
Employment Rights and Protection
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(2) The State shall direct its policy towards ensuring:
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(d) … reasonable national minimum living wage,
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Employment Rights and Protection
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2 The State shall, in particular, direct its policy towards securing:–
i That the citizens (all of whom, men and women equally, have the right to an adequate means of livelihood) may through their occupations find the means of making reasonable provision for their domestic needs.
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4 2° The State shall endeavour to ensure that the strength and health of workers, men and women, and the tender age of children shall not be abused and that citizens shall not be forced by economic necessity to enter avocations unsuited to their sex, age or strength. (Art. 45) - Irish Gaelic…
2 Déanfaidh an Stát, go sonrach, a bheartas a stiúradh i slí go gcuirfear in áirithe:–
i Go bhfaighidh na saoránaigh (agus tá ceart acu uile, idir fhear is bean, chun leorshlí bheatha), trína ngairmeacha beatha, caoi chun soláthar réasúnta a dhéanamh do riachtanais a dteaghlach.
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4 2° Déanfaidh an Stát iarracht chun a chur in áirithe nach ndéanfar neart agus sláinte lucht oibre, idir fheara is mná, ná maoth-óige leanaí a éagóradh, agus nach mbeidh ar shaoránaigh, de dheasca uireasa, dul le gairmeacha nach n-oireann dá ngné nó dá n-aois nó dá neart. (Airteagal 45)
Employment Rights and Protection
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Nicaraguans have the right to work in accordance with their [su] human nature. (Art. 57)
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Los nicaragüenses tienen el derecho al trabajo acorde con su naturaleza humana. (Art. 57)
Employment Rights and Protection
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it is the duty of the Islamic government to furnish all citizens with equal and appropriate opportunities, to provide them with work, and to satisfy their essential needs, so that the persistence of their progress may be assured. (The Economy is a Means, Not an End, Preamble) - Persian…
تأمین امکانات مساوی و متناسب و ایجاد کار برای همه افراد و رفع نیازهای ضروری جهت استمرار حرکت تکاملی او برعهده حکومت اسلامی است. (اقتصاد وسیله است نه هدف، مقدمه)
Employment Rights and Protection
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2. Women shall have the right to equal pay for equal work and other related benefits with men.
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Employment Rights and Protection
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(3) The organic laws shall govern:
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j) general regulation of labour relationships,
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(3) Prin lege organică se reglementează:
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(j) regimul general privind raporturile de muncă,
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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe workers have right to enjoy a remuneration that assures, them and their families, of a free and dignifying life. The law will consecrate the minimum and mobile living wage [salario vital], the annual year-end bonus [aguinaldo], the family bonuses, the recognition of a superior salary to the basic for hours of [a] unsanitary or risky work, and the extraordinary, night and holiday hours. Basically, equal salary for equal work corresponds. (Art. 92)
- SpanishEl trabajador tienen derechos a disfrutar de una remuneración que le asegure, a él y a su familia, una existencia libre y digna.
La ley consagrará el salario vital mínimo, el aguinaldo anual, la bonificación familiar, el reconocimiento de un salario superior al básico por horas de trabajo insalubre o riesgoso, y las horas extraordinarias, nocturnas y en días feriados. Corresponde, básicamente, igual salario por igual trabajo. (Art. 92)