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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe House of Representatives shall:
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2) consider draft laws, including … on the principles regulating labour and employment
… (Art. 97) - BelarusianПалата прадстаўнікоў:
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2) разглядае праекты законаў, у тым ліку … аб прынцыпах рэгулявання працы і занятасці
… (Артыкул 97) - RussianПалата представителей:
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2) рассматривает проекты законов, в том числе … о принципах регулирования труда и занятости
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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishWork is a right recognized to all citizens; the State is required to create the conditions necessary for its effective exercise. (Art. 37)
- Arabicالعمل هو حق معترف به لجميع المواطنين؛ الدولة مطالبة بتهيئة الظروف اللازمة لممارسته الفعلية. (المادة 37)
- FrenchLe travail est un droit reconnu à tous les citoyens; l'État est tenu de créer les conditions nécessaires pour son exercice effectif. (Art. 37)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishIt is the obligation of the State and of employers to offer professional and technical training to those who require it. The State must promote the job placement of the persons of working age and guarantee to the handicapped the right to a job in accordance with their health conditions. (Art. 54)
- SpanishEs obligación del Estado y de los empleadores ofrecer formación y habilitación profesional y técnica a quienes lo requieran. El Estado debe propiciar la ubicación laboral de las personas en edad de trabajar y garantizar a los minusválidos el derecho a un trabajo acorde con sus condiciones de salud. (Art. 54)
Employment Rights and Protection
- Englisha. Work is the duty of every citizen, is required by personal dignity and is dictated by the public good. Every citizen has the right to work and to choose the type of work within the bounds of public order and decency.
b. The State guarantees the provision of job opportunities for its citizens and the fairness of work conditions.
c. Compulsory work cannot be imposed on any person except in the cases specified by law for national exigency and for a fair consideration, or pursuant to a judicial ruling.
d. The law regulates the relationship between employees and employers on economic basis while observing social justice. (Art. 13) - Arabicأ - العمل واجب على كل مواطن، تـقـتضيه الكرامة ويستوجبه الخير العام، ولكل مواطن الحق في العمل وفي اختيار نوعه وفقا للنظام العام والآداب.
ب - تكفل الدولة توفير فرص العمل للمواطنين وعدالة شروطه.
ج - لا يجوز فرض عمل إجباري على أحد إلا في الأحوال التي يعينها القانون لضرورة قومية وبمقابل عادل، أو تـنفيذا لحكم قضائي.
د - ينظم القانون، على أسس اقـتصادية مع مراعاة قواعد العدالة الاجتماعية، العلاقة بين العمال وأصحاب الأعمال. (المادّة 13)
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
- 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
- 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
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11. The State recognizes work at home as an economic activity that creates aggregate value and produces social richness and well-being, therefore it shall be incorporated into the formulation and execution of public and social policies.
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11) El Estado reconoce el trabajo del hogar como actividad económica que crea valor agregado y produce riqueza y bienestar social, por lo que se incorporará en la formulación y ejecución de las políticas públicas y sociales;
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Employment Rights and Protection
- 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
- EnglishThe right to work is recognized to all. The State creates the conditions necessary for the exercise of this right.
No one may be prejudiced [lésé] in their work by virtue of their gender, of their race, of their ethnicity, of their opinions or of any other cause of discrimination.
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The law establishes the conditions for the assistance and the protection to which the workers have right. (Art. 20) - FrenchLe droit au travail est reconnu à tous. L’Etat crée les conditions nécessaires à l’exercice de ce droit.
Nul ne peut être lésé dans son travail en raison de son sexe, de sa race, de son ethnie, de ses opinions ou de toute autre cause de discrimination.
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La loi fixe les conditions d'assistance et de protection auxquelles ont droit les travailleurs. (Art. 20)