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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe law shall determine which employers, according to their capital and the total number of workers, shall be required to provide them and their families with educational, health, housing and other services. (Art. 141)
- SpanishLa Ley determinará los patronos que por el monto de su capital o el número de sus trabajadores, estarán obligados a proporcionar a éstos y a sus familias, servicios de educación, salud, vivienda o de otra naturaleza. (Art. 141)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe State shall promote policies that tend to the full employment and to the professional training of human resources, giving preference to national workers. (Art. 87)
- SpanishEl Estado promoverá políticas que tiendas al pleno empleo y a la formación profesional de recursos humanos, dando preferencia al trabajador nacional. (Art. 87)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English
The State stimulates the creation of wealth and guarantees the freedom to work and the freedom of enterprise, commerce and industry. The exercise of these freedoms must not be harmful to public morals, to [public] health, or to [public] security. The State provides opportunities for improvement to the sectors that suffer from any inequality; in that sense, it promotes small enterprises in all their modalities. (Art. 59)
- Spanish
El Estado estimula la creación de riqueza y garantiza la libertad de trabajo y la libertad de empresa, comercio e industria. El ejercicio de estas libertades no debe ser lesivo a la moral, ni a la salud, ni a la seguridad públicas. El Estado brinda oportunidades de superación a los sectores que sufren cualquier desigualdad; en tal sentido, promueve las pequeñas empresas en todas sus modalidades. (Art. 59)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishI. Every person has the right to dedicate him or herself to business, industry or any other legal economic activity under conditions which do not harm the collective well being.
II. The workers in small urban or rural productive units, or who are self-employed, and guild members in general, shall enjoy special protection on the part of the State through a policy of equitable commercial exchange and fair prices for their products, as well as a preferential allowance of financial economic resources to promote their production.
III. The State shall protect, promote and strengthen communitarian forms of production. (Art. 47) - SpanishI. Toda persona tiene derecho a dedicarse al comercio, la industria o a cualquier actividad económica lícita, en condiciones que no perjudiquen al bien colectivo.
II. Las trabajadoras y los trabajadores de pequeñas unidades productivas urbanas o rurales, por cuenta propia, y gremialistas en general, gozarán por parte del Estado de un régimen de protección especial, mediante una política de intercambio comercial equitativo y de precios justos para sus productos, así como la asignación preferente de recursos económicos financieros para incentivar su producción.
III. El Estado protegerá, fomentará y fortalecerá las formas comunitarias de producción. (Art. 47)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishEvery person may engage in labor, farming, industry, commerce, a profession, or any other lawful activity, save for the limitations imposed by general interest which the law may enact. (Art. 36)
- SpanishToda persona puede dedicarse al trabajo, cultivo, industria, comercio, profesión o cualquier otra actividad lícita, salvo las limitaciones de interés general que establezcan las leyes. (Art. 36)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishIt shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate and House of Commons, to make Laws for the Peace, Order, and good Government of Canada, in relation to all Matters not coming within the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces; and for greater Certainty, but not so as to restrict the Generality of the foregoing Terms of this Section, it is hereby declared that (notwithstanding anything in this Act) the exclusive Legislative Authority of the Parliament of Canada extends to all Matters coming within the Classes of Subjects next hereinafter enumerated; that is to say,
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2A. Unemployment insurance.
… (Constitution Act 1867, Sec. 91) - FrenchIl sera loisible à la Reine, de l’avis et du consentement du Sénat et de la Chambre des Communes, de faire des lois pour la paix, l’ordre et le bon gouvernement du Canada, relativement à toutes les matières ne tombant pas dans les categories de sujets par la présente loi exclusivement assignés aux législatures des provinces; mais, pour plus de garantie, sans toutefois restreindre la généralité des termes ci-haut employés dans le présent article, il est par la présente déclaré que (nonobstant toute disposition contraire énoncée dans la présente loi) l’autorité legislative exclusive du parlement du Canada s’étend à toutes les matières tombant dans les catégories de sujets ci-dessous énumérés, savoir:
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2A. L'assurance-chômage.
… (Loi constitutionnelle de 1867, Sec. 91)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe State will maintain, while [an] unemployment insurance does not exist, technical and permanent system of protection for the involuntarily unemployed, and will procure the reintegration of them into work. (Art. 72)
- SpanishEl Estado mantendrá, mientras no exista seguro de desocupación, un sistema técnico y permanente de protección a los desocupados involuntarios, y procurará la reintegración de los mismos al trabajo. (Art. 72)
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)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe agricultural and domestic workers have the right to protection within matters of salaries, working hours, rests, vacations, social security, indemnification for dismissal and, in general, to social benefits. The extent and nature of the rights previously mentioned will be determined by the law in accordance with the conditions and peculiarities of the work. Those who render services of domestic character in industrial and commercial businesses, [in] social entities and in others [that are] similar, will be considered manual workers and will have the rights recognized to these. (Art. 45)
- SpanishLos trabajadores agrícolas y domésticos tienen derecho a protección en materia de salarios, jornada de trabajo, descansos, vacaciones, seguridad social, indemnizaciones por despido y, en general, a las prestaciones sociales. La extensión y naturaleza de los derechos antes mencionados serán determinadas por la ley de acuerdo con las condiciones y peculiaridades del trabajo. Quienes presten servicio de carácter doméstico en empresas industriales, comerciales, entidades sociales y demás equiparables, serán considerados como trabajadores manuales y tendrán los derechos reconocidos a éstos. (Art. 45)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English…
(2) Every woman is entitled to equal access with men to academic, vocational and professional training, equal opportunities in employment, remuneration and promotion and in social, political and cultural activity. (Art. 149F)