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Employment Rights and Protection
Thailand
- EnglishThe State should promote abilities of the people to engage in work which is appropriate to their potentials and ages, and ensure that they have work to engage in. The State should protect labour to ensure safety and vocational hygiene, and receive income, welfare, social security and other benefits which are suitable for their living, and should provide for or promote savings for living after their working age. ... (Sec. 74)
- Thaiรัฐพึงส่งเสริมให้ประชาชนมีความสามารถในการทํางานอย่างเหมาะสมกับศักยภาพและวัย และให้มีงานทํา และพึงคุ้มครองผู้ใช้แรงงานให้ได้รับความปลอดภัยและมีสุขอนามัยที่ดีในการทํางาน มี รายได้ สวัสดิการ การประกันสังคม และสิทธิประโยชน์อื่นที่เหมาะสมแก่การดํารงชีพ และพึงจัดให้มีหรือส่งเสริมการออมเพื่อการดํารงชีพเมื่อพ้นวัยทํางาน ... (มาตรา ๗๔)
Employment Rights and Protection
New Zealand
- English(1) Anything done or omitted which would otherwise constitute a breach of any of the provisions of this Part8 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
Equatorial Guinea
- EnglishApart from those cases expressly provided for in other Articles of this Fundamental Law, the following are matters reserved to the law:
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n) The fundamental principles of … labor rights, and social security.
… (Art. 69) - SpanishAparte de los casos expresamente previstos en otros artículos de esta Ley Fundamental, son materias reservadas a la ley las siguientes:
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n) Los principios fundamentales de … el derecho laboral y la seguridad social.
… (Art. 69) - FrenchOutre les cas expressément prévus dans d'autres articles de cette Loi fondamentale, les matières suivantes relèvent du domaine de la loi:
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n) Les principes fondamentaux relatifs… au droit du travail et à la sécurité sociale.
… (Art. 69)
Employment Rights and Protection
Ecuador
- EnglishWork is a right and a social duty, as well as an economic right, source of personal fulfillment and the basis for the economy. The State shall guarantee full respect for the dignity of working persons, a decent life, fair pay and retribution, and performance of a healthy job that is freely chosen and accepted. (Art. 33)
- SpanishEl trabajo es un derecho y un deber social, y un derecho económico, fuente de realización personal y base de la economía. El Estado garantizará a las personas trabajadoras el pleno respeto a su dignidad, una vida decorosa, remuneraciones y retribuciones justas y el desempeño de un trabajo saludable y libremente escogido o aceptado. (Art. 33)
Employment Rights and Protection
China
- EnglishThe state continuously raises labor productivity, improves economic results and develops the productive forces by enhancing the enthusiasm of the working people, raising the level of their technical skill, disseminating advanced science and technology, improving the systems of economic administration and enterprise operation and management, instituting the socialist system of responsibility in various forms and improving organization of work.
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The State establishes a sound social security system compatible with the level of economic development. (Art. 14) - Chinese国家通过提高劳动者的积极性和技术水平,推广先进的科学技术,完善经济管理体制和企业经营管理制度,实行各种形式的社会主义责任制,改进劳动组织,以不断提高劳动生产率和经济效益,发展社会生产力。
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国家建立健全同经济发展水平相适应的社会保障制度。(第十四条)
Employment Rights and Protection
Uzbekistan
- EnglishEveryone shall have the right to work, free choice of work, fair conditions of labour and protection against unemployment in the procedure specified by law.
… (Art. 37) - UzbekHar bir shaxs mehnat qilish, erkin kasb tanlash, adolatli mehnat sharoitlarida ishlash va qonunda ko‘rsatilgan tartibda ishsizlikdan himoyalanish huquqiga egadir.
… (37-modda)
Employment Rights and Protection
Burkina Faso
- English
The State sees to the constant amelioration of the conditions of work and to the protection of the worker. (Art. 20)
- French
L’Etat veille à l’amélioration constante des conditions de travail et à la protection du travailleur. (Art. 20)
Employment Rights and Protection
Guinea
- English…
The law determines the fundamental principles:
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- of the right to work [droit du travail], of the syndical right and of the social protection;
… (Art. 72) - French…
La loi détermine les principes fondamentaux :
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- du droit du travail, du droit syndical et de la protection sociale ;
… (Art. 72)
Employment Rights and Protection
El Salvador
- EnglishThe employers are obligated to pay indemnification, and to provide [the] medical, pharmaceutical and other services established by the laws, to the worker who suffers a work accident or any occupational disease. (Art. 43)
- SpanishLos patronos están obligados a pagar indemnización, y a prestar servicios médicos, farmacéuticos y demás que establezcan las leyes, al trabajador que sufra accidente de trabajo o cualquier enfermedad profesional. (Art. 43)
Employment Rights and Protection
Belarus
- EnglishThe House of Representatives shall:
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2) consider draft laws, including … on the principles regulating labour and employment
… (Art. 97) - BelarusianПалата прадстаўнікоў:
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2) разглядае праекты законаў, у тым ліку … аб прынцыпах рэгулявання працы і занятасці
… (Артыкул 97) - RussianПалата представителей:
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2) рассматривает проекты законов, в том числе … о принципах регулирования труда и занятости
… (Статья 97)