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Employment Rights and Protection
- English
The Republic of Senegal guarantees to all citizens the fundamental individual freedoms, the economic and social rights as well as the collective rights. These freedoms and rights are notably:
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- the right to work,
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La République du Sénégal garantit à tous les citoyens les libertés individuelles fondamentales, les droits économiques et sociaux ainsi que les droits collectifs. Ces libertés et droits sont notamment :
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- le droit au travail,
... (Art. 8)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishEvery workman in the service of the State, of public or private enterprises or private persons, is guaranteed a minimum wage or salary. … (Art. 65)
- SpanishA todo trabajador al servicio del Estado o de empresas públicas o privadas o de individuos particulares se le garantiza su salario o sueldo mínimo. … (Art. 65)
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
- English(1) Every person has the right to full and free participation in the economic life of the State, which includes the right to choose their own work, trade, occupation, profession or other means of livelihood.
(2) The State must take reasonable measures within its available resources to achieve the progressive realisation of the rights recognised in subsection (1).
(3) To the extent that it is necessary, a law may limit, or may authorise the limitation of, the rights set out in subsection (1). (Sec. 32) - iTaukei(1) Na tamata yadua e tu vua na dodonu me vakaitavi ena bula vakailavo ni Vanua, qo e oka kina na dodonu ni nodra digitaka na nodra cakacaka, se so tale na gaunisala ni rawa ilavo.
(2) Na Matanitu me na vakayagataka e dua na ituvatuva e veiganiti ena veika sa tu rawa me na qai rawati na kena yacovi na dodonu e virikotori ena wasetiki (1).
(3) Na lawa ena rawa ni yalana, se vakadonuya na kena yalani, na dodonu e virikotori ena wasetiki (1), ia na vakayacori ga ena gauna e gadrevi kina me yalani. (Sec. 32)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe object of this Constitution is to facilitate the building of the United Republic as a nation of equal and free individuals enjoying freedom, justice, fraternity and concord, through the pursuit of the policy of Socialism and Self Reliance which emphasizes the application of socialist principles while taking into account the conditions prevailing in the United Republic. Therefore, the state authority and all its agencies are obliged to direct their policies and programmes towards ensuring -
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(e) that every person who is able to work does work, and work means any legitimate activity by which a person earns a living;
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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe law will established the obligatory and complete [integral] system of social security for the dependent workers and their families.
… (Art. 95) - SpanishEl sistema obligatorio e integral de seguridad social para el trabajador dependiente y su familia será establecido por la ley.
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Employment Rights and Protection
- English
The worker has the right to an equitable and sufficient remuneration, that procures, for him and his family, material and spiritual well-being.
Payment of the remuneration and of the social benefits of the worker takes priority over any other obligation of the employer.
Minimum remunerations are regulated by the State with participation of the representative organizations of the workers and of the employers. (Art. 24) - Spanish
El trabajador tiene derecho a una remuneración equitativa y suficiente, que procure, para él y su familia, el bienestar material y espiritual.
El pago de la remuneración y de los beneficios sociales del trabajador tiene prioridad sobre cualquiera otra obligación del empleador.
Las remuneraciones mínimas se regulan por el Estado con participación de las organizaciones representativas de los trabajadores y de los empleadores. (Art. 24)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishCitizens shall have the right to work, choice of profession, sort of employment and place of work at their own discretion, to safe and healthy working conditions.
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Wage earners shall be entitled to compensation, appropriate to amount and quality of work. The size of this compensation shall not be less than the minimum wage established by the state. (Art. 49) - RussianКаждый человек имеет право на труд, выбор профессии, рода занятий и места работы по своему усмотрению, здоровые и безопасные условия труда....
Лица, работающие по найму, имеют право на вознаграждение, соответствующее количеству и качеству труда. Размер этого вознаграждения не может быть менее размера минимальной заработной платы, установленного государством. (Статья 49) - TurkmenHer bir adamyň zähmete, öz islegine görä hünär, kär we iş ýerini saýlap almaga, zähmetiň sagdyn we howpsuz şertlerine hukugy bardyr.
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Hakyna durup işleýän adamlaryň öz çeken zähmetiniň möçberine we hiline laýyk gelýän hak almaga hukugy bardyr. Bu hakyň möçberi döwlet tarapyndan bellenilen iň pes zähmet hakynyň möçberinden az bolup bilmez. (49-nji madda)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English
The Parliament legislates within the domains attributed to it by the Constitution, as well as the following domains:
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18. the general rules concerning the right to work, to social security,
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يُشرّع البرلمان في الميادين الّتي يخصّصه له الدّستور، وكذلك في المجالات الآتية:
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18. القواعد العامّة المتعلّقة بقانون العمل والضّمان الاجتماعيّ،
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Le Parlement légifère dans les domaines que lui attribue la Constitution, ainsi que dans les domaines suivants:
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18)- les règles générales relatives au droit du travail, à la sécurité sociale
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Employment Rights and Protection
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Now, therefore, the people of Barbados
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(d) resolve that the operation of the economic system shall promote the general welfare by the equitable distribution of the material resources of the community, by the human conditions under which all men shall labour and by the undeviating recognition of ability, integrity and merit;
… (Preamble)