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Employment Rights and Protection
- English
(1) Anything done or omitted which would otherwise constitute a breach of any of the provisions of this Part5 shall not constitute such a breach if—
(a) it is done or omitted in good faith for the purpose of assisting or advancing persons or groups of persons, being in each case persons against whom discrimination is unlawful by virtue of this Part; and
(b) those persons or groups need or may reasonably be supposed to need assistance or advancement in order to achieve an equal place with other members of the community.
(2) Nothing in this Part—
(a) limits the power of the Crown to establish or arrange work or training schemes or employment assistance measures, eligibility for which may, in whole or in part, be determined by a person’s age, employment status, or family status; or
(b) makes it unlawful for any person to recruit or refer any other person who is of a particular age or of a particular employment status or of a particular family status for any work or training scheme or employment assistance measure that is established or arranged by the Crown, the eligibility for which may, in whole or in part, be determined by a person’s age, employment status, or family status. (Human Rights Act 1993, Sec. 73)
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།
... ༼རྩ་ཚན་༩༽
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishWithout prejudice to the provisions of the preceding Article, the UAE has exclusive legislative jurisdiction in the following matters:
- Labor relations and social security;
… (Art. 121) - Arabicﺑﻐﻴﺮ اﺧﻼﻝ ﺑﻤﺎ ﻫﻮ ﻣﻨﺼﻮﺹ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻓﻲ المادة اﻟﺴﺎﺑﻘﺔ ، ﻳﻨﻔﺮﺩ اﻻﺗﺤﺎﺩ ﺑﺎﻟﺘﺸﺮﻳﻊ ﻓﻲ الشؤون اﻟﺘﺎﻟﻴﺔ :
• ﻋﻼﻗﺎﺕ اﻟﻌﻤﻞ واﻟﻌﻤﺎﻝ واﻟﺘﺄﻣﻴﻨﺎﺕ اﻻﺟﺘﻤﺎﻋﻴﺔ .
... (المادّة 121)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English…
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.
… (Art. 55) - Spanish…
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;
… (Art. 55)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English
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The law determines fundamental principles:
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- of the right to work, of social security,
… (Art. 98) - French
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La loi détermine les principes fondamentaux:
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- du droit du travail, de la sécurité sociale,
… (Art. 98)
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)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English
Workers have the right to rest. For wage earners, this right is ensured by the establishment of a working week not exceeding 40 hours, reduced night work, paid annual leave and weekly rest days. (Art. 43)
- Belarusian
Працоўныя маюць права на адпачынак. Для тых, хто працуе па найму, гэта права забяспечваецца ўстанаўленнем рабочага тыдня, які не перавышае 40 гадзін, скарочанай працягласцю работы ў начны час, прадастаўленнем штогадовых аплатных водпускаў, дзён штотыднёвага адпачынку. (Артыкул 43)
- Russian
Трудящиеся имеют право на отдых. Для работающих по найму это право обеспечивается установлением рабочей недели, не превышающей 40 часов, сокращенной продолжительностью работы в ночное время, предоставлением ежегодных оплачиваемых отпусков, дней еженедельного отдыха. (Статья 43)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe domestic worker [trabajador a domicilio] has the right to an officially designated minimum salary, and to the payment of indemnification for time lost by motive of the delay of an employer in ordering or receiving [the] work or for the arbitrary or unjustified suspension of [the] work. A juridical situation [that is] analogous to [that of] the rest of the workers will be recognized for the domestic workers, taking into consideration the peculiarity of their labor. (Art. 41)
- SpanishEl trabajador a domicilio tiene derecho a un salario mínimo oficialmente señalado, y al pago de una indemnización por el tiempo que pierda con motivo del retardo del patrono en ordenar o recibir el trabajo o por la suspensión arbitraria o injustificada del mismo. Se reconocerá al trabajador a domicilio una situación jurídica análoga a la de los demás trabajadores, tomando en consideración la peculiaridad de su labor. (Art. 41)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe State recognizes to all citizens the right to work.
It guarantees to workers the just compensation for their services or for their production.
No one may be discriminated against in their work because of their origins, of their opinions, of their beliefs, of their sex or of their marital status [situation]. (Art. 35) - Arabicتعترف الدولة بحق جميع المواطنين في العمل.
تضمن للعمال التعويض العادل عن خدماتهم أو إنتاجهم.
لا يجوز تمييز أحد في عمله بسبب أصوله، آرائه، معتقداته، نوعه الاجتماعي أو وضعه العائلي. (المادة 35) - FrenchL'Etat reconnait à tous les citoyens le droit au travail.
Il garantit au travailleur la juste rétribution de ses services ou de sa production. Nul ne peut être lésé dans son travail en raison de ses origines, de ses opinions, de ses croyances, de son sexe ou de sa situation matrimoniale. (Art. 35)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe State makes an effort to overcome the needs of every citizen who, for reason of their age or their physical or mental incompetence, find themselves in an incapacity to work, notably through the intervention of institutions or organs with a social character. (Art. 30)
- FrenchL'Etat s'efforce de subvenir aux besoins de tout citoyen qui, en raison de son âge ou de son inaptitude physique ou mentale, se trouve dans l'incapacité de travailler, notamment par l’intervention d’institutions ou d'organismes à caractère social. (Art. 30)