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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe people of Venezuela, … guarantees the right to ... work, … without discrimination or subordination of any kind; … (Preamble)
- SpanishEl pueblo de Venezuela, … asegure el derecho ... al trabajo, ... sin discriminación ni subordinación alguna; … (Preámbulo)
Employment Rights and Protection
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The State shall afford special protection to mothers and children by providing maternity leave, reduced working hours for mothers with several children, a wide network of maternity hospitals, crèches and kindergartens, and other measures.
… (Art. 77) - Korean…
국가는 산전산후휴가의 보장, 여러 어린이를 가진 어머니를 위한 로동시간의 단축, 산원, 탁아소와 유치원망의 확장 그밖의 시책을 통하여 어머니와 어린이를 특별히 보호한다.
… (제77조)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishAll workers will have the right to one day of rest after six consecutive days of work, and to annual paid vacations, of which the extent and opportunity will be regulated by the law, but in no case will include less than two weeks for every fifty weeks of continuous service; all without prejudice to the very qualified exceptions that the legislator establishes. (Art. 59)
- SpanishTodos los trabajadores tendrán derecho a un día de descanso después de seis días consecutivos de trabajo, y a vacaciones anuales pagadas, cuya extensión y oportunidad serán reguladas por la ley, pero en ningún caso comprenderán menos de dos semanas por cada cincuenta semanas de servicio continuo; todo sin perjuicio de las excepciones muy calificadas que el legislador establezca. (Art. 59)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English1. Everyone has the right to work.
2. In order to ensure the right to work, the state is charged with promoting:
a) The implementation of full-employment policies;
b) Equal opportunities in the choice of profession or type of work, and the conditions needed to avoid the gender-based preclusion or limitation of access to any position, work or professional category;
c) The cultural and technical training and occupational development of workers. (Art. 58) - Portuguese1. Todos têm direito ao trabalho.
2. Para assegurar o direito ao trabalho, incumbe ao Estado promover:
a) A execução de políticas de pleno emprego;
b) A igualdade de oportunidades na escolha da profissão ou género de trabalho e condições para que não seja vedado ou limitado, em função do sexo, o acesso a quaisquer cargos, trabalho ou categorias profissionais;
c) A formação cultural e técnica e a valorização profissional dos trabalhadores. (Art. 58)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English
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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
- EnglishCitizens shall enjoy equal opportunity in carrying out the following functions :
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(b) occupation;
(c) trade;
(d) business;
(e) technical know-how and vocation;
… (Sec. 349) - Burmeseနိုင်ငံသားများသည် အောက်ပါလုပ်ငန်းများကို လုပ်ကိုင်ဆောင်ရွက်ရာတွင် တူညီသော အခွင့်အလမ်းရရှိစေရမည် -
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(ခ) အလုပ်လုပ်ကိုင်မှု၊
(ဂ) ကုန်သွယ်ရောင်းဝယ်ဖောက်ကားမှု၊
(ဃ) စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်း လုပ်ကိုင်မှု၊
(င) အတက်ပညာ နှင့် အသက်မွေးဝမ်းကျောင်းမှု၊
... (ပုဒ်မ-၃၄၉)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishWhereas the People of Dominica—
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(b) respect the principles of social justice and therefore believe that the operation of the economic system should result in so distributing the material resources of the community as to subserve the common good, that there should be adequate means of livelihood for all, that labour should not be exploited or forced by economic necessity to operate in inhumane conditions but that there should be opportunity for advancement on the basis of recognition of merit, ability and integrity;
… (Preamble)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English
(1) Every person shall have the right to choose freely his or her profession and to receive appropriate training, as well as the right to earn his or her living through entrepreneurial activities.
(2) Terms of, or restrictions on, specific professions, trades or activities may be regulated by law.
(3) Citizens shall have the right to work. The State shall guarantee, within reasonable limits, the material welfare of those who cannot enjoy this right through no fault of their own. The terms thereof shall be specified by law.
… (Art. 35) - Slovak
(1) Kaţdý má právo na slobodnú voľbu povolania a prípravu naň, ako aj právo podnikať a uskutočňovať inú zárobkovú činnosť.
(2) Zákon môţe ustanoviť podmienky a obmedzenia výkonu určitých povolaní alebo činností.
(3) Občania majú právo na prácu. Štát v primeranom rozsahu hmotne zabezpečuje občanov, ktorí nie z vlastnej viny nemôţu toto právo vykonávať. Podmienky ustanoví zákon.
… (Čl. 35)
Employment Rights and Protection
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(6) The State shall afford equality of economic opportunity to all citizens; and, in particular, the State shall take all necessary steps so as to ensure the full integration of women into the mainstream of the economic development of Ghana.
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(10) The State shall safeguard the health, safety and welfare of all persons in employment, and shall establish the basis for the full deployment of the creative potential of all Ghanaians.
… (Art. 36)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English1. The following shall fall within the exclusive competence of the supreme state authorities of Georgia:
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b) … labour and procedural legislation;
… (Art. 7) - Georgian1. საქართველოს უმაღლეს სახელმწიფო ორგანოთა განსაკუთრებულ გამგებლობას მიეკუთვნება:
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ბ) … შრომის სამართლის,
… (მუხლი 7)