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Employment Rights and Protection
- English(1) Every person has the right to fair employment practices, including humane treatment and proper working conditions.
… (Sec. 20) - iTaukei(1) Na tamata taucoko e tiko vei ira na dodonu mera qaravi vakatautauvata ena gauna ni cakacaka, okati kina na nodra qaravi vinaka kei na tuvaki vinaka ni valenicakacaka.
… (Sec. 20)
Employment Rights and Protection
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Social security will be organized under the General Social Security System, of a contributory nature and mandatory membership, observing criteria that preserve the financial and actuarial balance, and will, in accordance with the law, meet:
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III – protection to workers in a situation of involuntary unemployment;
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Paragraph 2. No benefit which replaces the contribution salary or labour earnings of the insured shall have a monthly amount lower than the minimum monthly wage.
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Paragraph 7. Retirement is ensured under the general social security scheme, in accordance with the law, upon compliance with the following conditions:
I – 65 (sixty-five) years of age, if a man, and 62 (sixty-two) years of age, if a woman, with a minimum contribution time;
II – 60 (sixty) years of age, if a man, and 55 (fifty-five) years of age, if a woman, for rural workers and for those who carry out their activities in a family economy regime, including rural producers, miners and artisanal fishermen.
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Paragraph 12. A law will institute a special social security inclusion system, with different rates, to assist low-income workers, including those who are in an informal situation, and those without their own income, who dedicate themselves exclusively to domestic work within the scope of their residence, provided that belonging to low-income families.
… (Art. 201) - Portuguese
A previdência social será organizada sob a forma de regime geral, de caráter contributivo e de filiação obrigatória, observados critérios que preservem o equilíbrio financeiro e atuarial, e atenderá, nos termos da lei, a:
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III - proteção ao trabalhador em situação de desemprego involuntário;
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§ 2º Nenhum benefício que substitua o salário de contribuição ou o rendimento do trabalho do segurado terá valor mensal inferior ao salário mínimo.
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§ 7º É assegurada aposentadoria no regime geral de previdência social, nos termos da lei, obedecidas as seguintes condições:
I - trinta e cinco anos de contribuição, se homem, e trinta anos de contribuição, se mulher;
II - sessenta e cinco anos de idade, se homem, e sessenta anos de idade, se mulher, reduzido em cinco anos o limite para os trabalhadores rurais de ambos os sexos e para os que exerçam suas atividades em regime de economia familiar, nestes incluídos o produtor rural, o garimpeiro e o pescador artesanal.
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§ 12. Lei disporá sobre sistema especial de inclusão previdenciária para atender a trabalhadores de baixa renda e àqueles sem renda própria que se dediquem exclusivamente ao trabalho doméstico no âmbito de sua residência, desde que pertencentes a famílias de baixa renda, garantindo-lhes acesso a benefícios de valor igual a um salário-mínimo.
… (Art. 201)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishAll workers have the right to benefits to compensate them for length of service and protect them in the event of dismissal. … (Art. 92)
- SpanishTodos los trabajadores y trabajadoras tienen derecho a prestaciones sociales que les recompensen la antigüedad en el servicio y los amparen en caso de cesantía. … (Art. 92)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English1. It is incumbent upon the Government:
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j) To lead the labour and social security policy;
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n) To support private enterprise initiatives;
… (Sec. 115) - Tetum1. Governu nia knaar maka:
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j) Dirije polítika serbisu no seguransa sosiál nian;
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n) Fó tulun ba inisiativa ekonómiku privadu;
… (Art. 115) - Portuguese1. Compete ao Governo:
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j) Dirigir a política laboral e de segurança social;
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n) Apoiar o exercício da iniciativa económica privada;
… (Art. 115)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English
The State guarantees the right to work and sees to [the] assurance of the exercise of this right. (Art. 38)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishAll employers must adopt in their enterprises the necessary measures for the hygiene and safety [seguridad] of work. (Art. 66)
- SpanishTodo patrono debe adoptar en sus empresas las medidas necesarias para la higiene y seguridad del trabajo. (Art. 66)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English
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12. The State shall endeavour to ensure the right to work, vocational guidance and training and just and favourable conditions of work.
13. The State shall endeavour to ensure the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
14. The State shall endeavour to ensure the right to fair and reasonable remuneration for one’s work.
… (Art. 9) - Dzongkha
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༡༢) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ ལཱ་འབད་ནི་དང་ ལག་རྩལ་ལམ་སྟོན་ སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ དྲང་བདེན་དང་བྱ་ སྟབས་བདེ་བའི་ལཱ་གི་ ཆ་རྐྱེན་ཚུ་གི་ཐོབ་དབང་ངེས་གཏན་བཟོ་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
༡༣) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱུ་མཚན་ལྡན་པའི་ལཱ་གི་ཆུ་ཚོད་ཚད་འཛིན་དང་ དངུལ་ཕོགས་ཡོད་པའི་ དུས་མཚམས་ངལ་གསོ་ བརྩིས་ཏེ་ ངལ་གསོ་དང་དལ་ཁོམས་ཀྱི་ཐོབ་དབང་ཡོདཔ་ངེས་གཏན་ བཟོ་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
༡༤) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ རང་གི་ལཱ་དང་བསྟུན་ཏེ་དྲང་སྙོམས་དང་ རྒྱུ་མཚན་ལྡན་པའི་གླ་ཡོན་གྱི་ཐོབ་ དབང་ཡོདཔ་ངེས་གཏན་ བཟོ་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
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Employment Rights and Protection
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3. The State shall ... prioritize the employment and development of talented people;
... (Art. 61) - Vietnamese…
3. Nhà nước ưu ... tiên sử dụng, phát triển nhân tài;
… (Điều 61)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English1. All citizens shall have the right to work, and the public authorities shall be responsible for creating the conditions necessary for the effective realization of such right.
… (Art. 61) - Portuguese1. Todos os cidadãos têm direito ao trabalho, incumbindo aos poderes públicos promover as condições para o seu exercício efectivo.
… (Art. 61)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe Republic guarantees to every citizen the right to work, to a healthy environment, to rest and to recreation within the conditions established by the law. It assures to them the conditions favorable for their development through an efficient policy of employment.
All citizens are equal concerning employment. No one may be discriminated against in their work or their employment because of their origin, of their sex, of their opinions or of their beliefs.
All workers participate, through the intermediary of their representatives, in the determination of working conditions.
The laws establish the conditions of assistance and of protection accorded to workers, and most particularly to the most young, to the most elderly, to the handicapped and to the minorities. (Art. 11) - FrenchLa République garantit à chaque citoyen le droit au travail, à un environnement sain, au repos et aux loisirs dans le respect des exigences du développement national. Elle lui assure les conditions favorables à son épanouissement par une politique efficiente de l'emploi.
Tous les citoyens sont égaux devant l'emploi. Nul ne peut être lésé dans son travail ou son emploi en raison de ses origines, de son sexe, de ses opinions ou de ses croyances.
Tout travailleur participe, par l'intermédiaire de ses représentants, à la détermination des conditions de travail.
Des lois fixent les conditions d'assistance et de protection accordées aux travailleurs, plus particulièrement aux plus jeunes, aux plus âgés, aux personnes handicapés et aux minorités. (Art. 11)