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Employment Rights and Protection
Mozambique
- English1. The family sector shall play a fundamental role in meeting the basic needs of the people.
2. The State shall support and provide incentives for family sector production, and shall encourage peasants as well as individual workers to organize themselves into more advanced forms of production. (Art. 105) - Portuguese1. Na satisfação das necessidades essenciais da população, ao sector familiar cabe um papel fundamental.
2. O Estado incentiva e apoia a produção do sector familiar e encoraja os camponeses, bem como os trabalhadores individuais, a organizarem-se em formas mais avançadas de produção. (Art. 105)
Employment Rights and Protection
Honduras
- EnglishThe law guarantees stability for workers in their jobs, in accordance with the characteristics of industries and professions, and just causes of severance. Whenever an injustifiable discharge occurs upon final judgment, the worker shall be entitled at his option to compensation for unpaid wages damages, and to the legal indemnity as well as the indemnity agreed to, or else to be reinstated with recognition of unpaid wages, as actual and consequential damages. (Art. 129)
- SpanishLa Ley garantiza la estabilidad de los trabajadores en sus empleos, de acuerdo con las características de las industrias y profesiones, y las justas causas de separación. Cuando el despido injustificado surta efecto y firme que sea, la sentencia condenatoria respectiva, el trabajador tendrá derecho a su elección, a una remuneración en concepto de salarios dejados de percibir, a título de daños y perjuicios, y a las indemnizaciones legales y convencionalmente previstas; o, a que se le reintegre al trabajo con el reconocimiento de salarios dejados de percibir, a título de daños y perjuicios. (Art. 129)
Employment Rights and Protection
Germany
- English(1) Concurrent legislative power shall extend to the following matters:
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12. labour law, including the organisation of enterprises, occupational health and safety, and employment agencies, as well as social security, including unemployment insurance;
… (Art. 74) - German(1) Die konkurrierende Gesetzgebung erstreckt sich auf folgende Gebiete:
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12. das Arbeitsrecht einschließlich der Betriebsverfassung, des Arbeitsschutzes und der Arbeitsvermittlung sowie die Sozialversicherung einschließlich der Arbeitslosenversicherung;
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Employment Rights and Protection
Egypt
- EnglishThe economic system aims at achieving prosperity through sustainable development and social justice so as to raise the real growth rate of the national economy and the standard of living, increase job opportunities, reduce unemployment rates and eliminate poverty.
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From a social perspective, the economic system shall ensure equal opportunities and fair distribution of development returns, reduce the differences among incomes and adhere to a minimum wage and pension ensuring a decent life, as well as a maximum one in State agencies for every salaried employee according to the Law. (Art. 27) - Arabicيهدف النظام الاقتصادى إلى تحقيق الرخاء فى البلاد من خلال التنمية المستدامة والعدالة الاجتماعية، بما يكفل رفع معدل النمو الحقيقى للاقتصاد القومى، ورفع مستوى المعيشة، وزيادة فرص العمل وتقليل معدلات البطالة، والقضاء على الفقر.
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ويلتزم النظام الاقتصادي اجتماعياً بضمان تكافؤ الفرص والتوزيع العادل لعوائد التنمية وتقليل الفوارق بين الدخول والالتزام بحد أدنى للأجور والمعاشات يضمن الحياة الكريمة، وبحد أقصى فى أجهزة الدولة لكل من يعمل بأجر، وفقا للقانون. (المادّة 27)
Employment Rights and Protection
Senegal
- EnglishEveryone has the right to work and the right to seek [prétendre] employment. No one may be impeded in their work for reason of their origins, of their sex, of their opinions, of their political choices or of their beliefs. The worker may affiliate with a union and defend their rights through union action.
Any discrimination between men and women in employment, salary and taxation [impôt] is forbidden. ...
Every worker participates, by the intermediary of his delegates, in the determination of the conditions of work in the enterprise. The State sees to sanitary and humane conditions in the places of work.
Specific laws establish the conditions of assistance and of protection which the State and the enterprise accord to the workers. (Art. 25) - FrenchChacun a le droit de travailler et le droit de prétendre à un emploi. Nul ne peut être lésé dans son travail en raison de ses origines, de son sexe, de ses opinions, de ses choix politiques ou de ses croyances. Le travailleur peut adhérer à un syndicat et défendre ses droits par l'action syndicale.
Toute discrimination entre l'homme et la femme devant l'emploi, le salaire et l'impôt est interdite. ...
Tout travailleur participe, par l'intermédiaire de ses délégués, à la détermination des conditions de travail dans l'entreprise. L'Etat veille aux conditions sanitaires et humaines dans les lieux de travail.
Des lois particulières fixent les conditions d'assistance et de protection que l'Etat et l'entreprise accordent aux travailleurs. (Art. 25)
Employment Rights and Protection
Panama
- EnglishRules of periodic adjustment of the minimum salary or wage of the worker shall be set by law, to cover the normal requirements of his/her family, to improve worker's standard of living according to specific conditions of each economic region and activity. The law may also determine the method of fixing minimum salaries or wages for professions or trades.
Whenever job or piece work is performed, it is obligatory that the minimum wage be ensured for each day's work.
The minimum of all wages or salaries is un-attachable, except for support obligations as established by law. Working tools of the workmen are also un-attachable. (Art. 66) - SpanishLa Ley establecerá la manera de ajustar periódicamente el salario o sueldo mínimo del trabajador, con el fin de cubrir las necesidades normales de su familia, mejorar su nivel de vida, según las condiciones particulares de cada región y de cada actividad económica; podrá determinar asimismo el método para fijar salarios o sueldos mínimos por profesión u oficio.
En los trabajos por tarea o pieza, es obligatorio que quede asegurado el salario mínimo por pieza o jornada.
El mínimo de todo salario o sueldo es inembargable, salvo las obligaciones alimenticias en la forma que establezca la Ley. Son también inembargables los instrumentos de labor de los trabajadores. (Art. 66)
Employment Rights and Protection
Liechtenstein
- English1) The State shall protect the right to work and the workers, especially women and young persons employed in trades and industry.
2) Sundays and holidays recognized by the State shall be observed as public days of rest, without prejudice to the legal provisions governing rest on Sundays and holidays. (Art. 19) - German1) Der Staat schützt das Recht auf Arbeit und die Arbeitskraft, insbesondere jene der in Gewerbe und Industrie beschäftigten Frauen und jugendlichen Personen.
2) Der Sonntag und die staatlich anerkannten Feiertage sind, unbeschadet gesetzlicher Regelung der Sonn- und Feiertagsruhe, öffentliche Ruhetage. (Art. 19)
Employment Rights and Protection
Tanzania, United Republic of
- English(1) The state authority shall make appropriate provisions for the realization of a person’s right to work, … Without prejudice to those rights, the state authority shall make provisions to ensure that every person earns his livelihood.
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Employment Rights and Protection
Paraguay
- EnglishAll persons have the right to dedicate themselves to the legal economic activity of their preference, within a regime of equal opportunities.
… (Art. 107) - SpanishToda persona tiene derecho a dedicarse a la actividad económica lícita de su preferencia, dentro de un régimen de igualdad de oportunidades.
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Employment Rights and Protection
Israel
- EnglishEvery Israel national or resident has the right to engage in any occupation, profession or trade. (Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation (1994), Sec. 3)
- Hebrewכל אזרח או תושב של המדינה זכאי לעסוק בכל עיסוק, מקצוע או משלח יד. (חוק יסוד: חופש העיסוק (1994), סעיף 3)