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Employment Rights and Protection
- English1. The following shall fall within the exclusive competence of the supreme state authorities of Georgia:
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b) … labour and procedural legislation;
… (Art. 7) - Georgian1. საქართველოს უმაღლეს სახელმწიფო ორგანოთა განსაკუთრებულ გამგებლობას მიეკუთვნება:
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ბ) … შრომის სამართლის,
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Employment Rights and Protection
- English(1) Every citizen is entitled to –
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(g) the freedom to engage by himself or in association with others in any lawful occupation, profession, trade, business or enterprise ;
… (Art. 14) - Sinhala(1) සෑම පුරවැසියකුට ම -
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(උ) එකලාව හෝ අන් අය හා සමග යම් නීත්යානුකූල රැකියාවක, වෘත්තියක, කර්මාන්තයක, වෙළඳ ව්යාපාරයක හෝ ව්යවසායක නියුක්ත වීමේ නිදහසට;
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Employment Rights and Protection
- English
(1) The primary functions of the Commission are—
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(d) to promote equal employment opportunities (including pay equity); and
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(2) The Commission has, in order to carry out its primary functions under subsection (1), the following functions:
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(n) to exercise the following functions in relation to equal employment opportunities:
(i) to evaluate, through the use of benchmarks developed by the Commission, the roles that legislation, guidelines, and voluntary codes of practice play in facilitating and promoting best practice in equal employment opportunities:
(ii) to lead the development of guidelines and voluntary codes of practice to facilitate and promote best practice in equal employment opportunities (including codes that identify related rights and obligations in legislation) in accordance with paragraph (e):
(iii) to monitor and analyse progress in improving equal employment opportunities in New Zealand and to report to the Minister on the results of that monitoring and analysis
(iv) to liaise with, and complement the work of, any trust or body that has as one of its purposes the promotion of equal employment opportunities:
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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
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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.
… (Art. 7) - Dzongkha
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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
- EnglishNo one shall be required to perform work unsuited to his/her age, sex, and capacity.
Minors, women, and physically and mentally disabled persons, shall enjoy special protection with regard to working conditions.
All workers have the right to rest and leisure.
Rights and conditions relating to paid weekends and holidays, together with paid annual leave, shall be regulated by law. (Art. 50) - TurkishKimse, yaşına, cinsiyetine ve gücüne uymayan işlerde çalıştırılamaz.
Küçükler ve kadınlar ile bedenî ve ruhî yetersizliği olanlar çalışma şartları bakımından özel olarak korunurlar.
Dinlenmek, çalışanların hakkıdır.
Ücretli hafta ve bayram tatili ile ücretli yıllık izin hakları ve şartları kanunla düzenlenir. (Madde 50)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe community shall esteem work as a cornerstone of its development. The community shall provide jobs to the citizens, qualify them for those jobs, and create the suitable conditions for service by enacting legislation protecting the rights of the employees and the interests of the employers in the light of the advanced international labor legislation. (Art. 20)
- Arabicيقدر المجتمع العمل كركن أساسي من أركان تقدمه، ويعمل على توفيره للمواطنين وتأهيلهم له، ويهيئ الظروف الملائمة لذلك بما يضعه من تشريعات تصون حقوق العمال ومصالح أرباب العمل، على ضوء التشريعات العمالية. (المادّة 20)
Employment Rights and Protection
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3. Every citizen shall have the right to participate freely in any economic activity and to engage in any lawful business.
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5. The National Assembly shall enact laws guaranteeing and securing the social welfare of citizens, the rights and conditions of labor and other rights and responsibilities listed in this Article. (Art. 21)
Employment Rights and Protection
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The law determines fundamental principles:
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- of the right to work, of social security,
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La loi détermine les principes fondamentaux:
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- du droit du travail, de la sécurité sociale,
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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe State shall guarantee the rights of pregnant and breast-feeding women to:
1. Not be discriminated for their pregnancy in education, social, and labor sectors.
… (Art. 43) - SpanishEl Estado garantizará a las mujeres embarazadas y en periodo de lactancia los derechos a:
1. No ser discriminadas por su embarazo en los ámbitos educativo, social y laboral.
… (Art. 43)