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Employment Rights and Protection
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(4) No discrimination shall be made on the ground of gender with regard to remuneration and social security for the same work.
… (Art. 18) - Nepali…
(४) समान कामकालागि लैंगिक आधारमा पारिश्रमिक तथा सामाजिक सुरक्षामा कुनै भेदभाव गरिने छैन ।
... (धारा १८)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe State shall provide job opportunities to all able-bodied people and shall enact laws to protect both the employee and the employer. (Basic Law, Art. 28)
- Arabicتيسّر الدولة مجالات العمل لكل قادر عليه، وتسن الأنظمة التي تحمي العامل وصاحب العمل. (النظام الأساسي، المادة 28)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishEveryone has the freedom to work and conclude contracts in the field of his/her choice. Establishment of private enterprises is free.
The State shall take measures to ensure that private enterprises operate in accordance with national economic requirements and social objectives and in security and stability. (Art. 48) - TurkishHerkes, dilediği alanda çalışma ve sözleşme hürriyetlerine sahiptir. Özel teşebbüsler kurmak serbesttir.
Devlet, özel teşebbüslerin millî ekonominin gereklerine ve sosyal amaçlara uygun yürümesini, güvenlik ve kararlılık içinde çalışmasını sağlayacak tedbirleri alır. (Madde 48)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishWork is a right, an honour, and a necessity for society's progress. Every citizen has the right to choose the appropriate work for himself within the law. No citizen can be compelled to do any work except within the law, and in which case it is to serve the common interest and be in return for a fair wage. The law shall regulate union activities and professional work, and the relationship between workers and employers. (Art. 29)
- Arabicالعمل حق وشرف وضرورة لتطوير المجتمع ولكل مواطن الحق في ممارسة العمل الذي يختاره لنفسه في حدود القانون ولا يجوز فرض أي عمل جبراً على المواطنين إلا بمقتضى قانون ولأداء خدمة عامة وبمقابل أجر عادل، وينظم القانون العمل النقابي والمهني والعلاقة بين العمال وأصحاب العمل. (المادّة 29)
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།
... ༼རྩ་ཚན་༧༽
Employment Rights and Protection
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The freedom of occupation is not to be violated, save by a law that corresponds to the values of the State of Israel, which is designed to serve an appropriate purpose, and to an extent no greater than required, or on the basis of a law, as aforementioned, by force of an explicit authorization therein. (Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation (1994), Sec. 4)
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אין פוגעים בחופש העיסוק אלא בחוק ההולם את ערכיה של מדינת ישראל, שנועד לתכלית ראויה, ובמידה שאינה עולה על הנדרש, או לפי חוק כאמור מכוח הסמכה מפורשת בו. (חוק יסוד: חופש העיסוק (1994), סעיף 4)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English1. Work is the right of all citizens, and the State shall avail it to Jordanians by directing and improving the national economy.
2. The State shall protect labour and enact legislation therefor based on the following principles:
a. Giving the worker a wage commensurate with the quantity and quality of his work.
b. Defining weekly work hours and granting workers weekly and annual paid rest days.
c. Specifying special compensation to workers supporting families and in the cases of dismissal, illness, disability and emergencies arising out of work.
d. Establishing special conditions for the work of women and juveniles.
e. Subjection of factories to health safeguards.
… (Art. 23) - Arabic1. العمل حق لجميع المواطنين وعلى الدولة أن توفره للأردنيين بتوجيه الإقتصاد الوطني والنهوض به .
2. تحمي الدولة العمل وتضع له تشريعاً يقوم على المبادئ الآتية:
أ. إعطاء العامل أجراً يتناسب مع كمية عمله وكيفيته.
ب. تحديد ساعات العمل الأسبوعية ومنح العمال أيام راحة أسبوعية وسنوية مع الأجر.
ج. تقرير تعويض خاص للعمال المعيلين، وفي أحوال التسريح والمرض والعجز والطوارئ الناشئة عن العمل.
د. تعيين الشروط الخاصة بعمل النساء والأحداث.
ه. خضوع المعامل للقواعد الصّحية.
… (المادّة 23)
Employment Rights and Protection
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Lao citizens have the right to work and engage in occupations which are not contrary to the laws. Workers have the right to rest, to receive medical treatment in times of illness, [and] to receive assistance in the event of incapacity or disability, in old age, and in other cases as provided by the laws. (Art. 39)
- Lao
ພົນລະເມືອງລາວມີສິດເຮັດວຽກ ແລະປະກອບອາຊີບທີ່ບໍ່ຂັດກັບກົດໝາຍ. ຜູ້ອອກແຮງງານມີສິດໄດ້ຮັບການພັກຜ່ອນ, ໄດ້ຮັບການປິ່ນປົວໃນເວລາເຈັບເປັນ, ໄດ້ຮັບການຊ່ວຍເຫຼືອໃນກໍລະນີທີ່ໝົດຄວາມສາມາດອອກແຮງງານ, ເສຍອົງຄະ, ໃນເວລາເຖົ້າແກ່ ແລະໃນກໍລະນີອື່ນໆຕາມທີ່ໄດ້ກໍານົດໄວ້ໃນກົດໝາຍ. (ມາດຕາ 39)
Employment Rights and Protection
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– Work is a right and an honour. Every citizen may practise the work he chooses for himself within the limits of the law. No citizen may be forced to work except by virtue of a law, in performance of public service, for a specific period of time, and for fair remuneration. The state shall enact laws that protect the worker and the employer, govern their relationship, and provide conditions for occupational security, safety, and health.
... (Art. 15) - Arabic
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– العمل حق وشرف، ولكل مواطن ممارسة العمل الذي يختاره لنفسه في حدود القانون، ولا يجوز إلزام أي مواطن بالعمل جبرا إلا بمقتضى قانون، ولأداء خدمة عامة، ولمدة محددة، وبمقابل عادل، وتسن الدولة القوانين التي تحمي العامل وصاحب العمل وتنظم العلاقة بينهما وتوفر شروط الأمن والسلامة والصحة المهنية.
... (المادّة ١٥)
Employment Rights and Protection
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3. The State shall … work on developing human resources and protecting the labor force in a way that serves the national economy. (Art. 13) - Arabic
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3 الدو ... تعمل على تطوير الطاقات البشرية وتحمي قوة العمل، بما يخدم الإقتصاد الوطن ي (المادّة 13)