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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishEvery citizen has the right to choose their trade, occupation or profession freely. (Art. 23)
- SomaliMuwaaddin kasta wuxuu xaq u leeyahay in uu si xor ah u doorto xirfadda, shaqada ama mihnadda uu rabo. (Qodobka 23aad.)
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
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(2) Except as expressly authorised by this Constitution, there shall be no discrimination against citizens of Singapore on the ground only of religion, race, descent or place of birth in any law or in the appointment to any office or employment under a public authority or in the administration of any law relating to the acquisition, holding or disposition of property or the establishing or carrying on of any trade, business, profession, vocation or employment.
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Employment Rights and Protection
- English(1) The State must take reasonable measures within its available resources to achieve the progressive realisation of the right of every person to work and to a just minimum wage.
(2) In applying any right under this section, if the State claims that it does not have the resources to implement the right, it is the responsibility of the State to show that the resources are not available. (Sec. 33) - iTaukei(1) Na Matanitu me na vakayagataka e dua na ituvatuva e veiganiti ena veika sa tu rawa me qai rawati na dodonu ni tamata yadua me cakacaka ka me saumi ena isau e veiganiti.
(2) Ena kena taurivaki na dodonu ena tikina qo, kevaka e vakaraitaka na Matanitu ni sega ni tiko vua na ivurevure ni veika me baleta na kena taurivaki na dodonu, e nona itavi na Matanitu me vakaraitaka ni sega vua na ivurevure. (Sec. 33)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe State shall endeavour to fulfil the fundamental rights of all Ugandans to social justice and economic development and shall, in particular, ensure that-
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b. all Ugandans enjoy rights and opportunities and access to … work, ... (National Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy, XIV)
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
- EnglishEveryone has the right and duty to work.
The State shall take the necessary measures to raise the standard of living of workers, and to protect workers and the unemployed in order to improve the general conditions of labour, to promote labour, to create suitable economic conditions for prevention of unemployment and to secure labour peace. (Art. 49) - TurkishÇalışma, herkesin hakkı ve ödevidir. Devlet, çalışanların hayat seviyesini yükseltmek, çalışma hayatını geliştirmek için çalışanları ve işsizleri korumak, çalışmayı desteklemek, işsizliği önlemeye elverişli ekonomik bir ortam yaratmak ve çalışma barışını sağlamak için gerekli tedbirleri alır. (Madde 49)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English
Everyone shall have the right to rest and leisure time.
Citizens working on hire shall have the right to rest and leisure time by establishing the length of working hours, days off and non-working holidays, paid annual leave. (Art. 45)3 - Uzbek
Har kim dam olish huquqiga ega.
Yollanib ishlovchilarga dam olish huquqi ish vaqtining davomiyligini, dam olish va ishlanmaydigan bayram kunlarini, haq to‘lanadigan har yilgi mehnat ta’tilini belgilash orqali ta’minlanadi.
... (45-modda)
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)