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Employment Rights and Protection
Nepal
- EnglishThe State shall pursue the following policies:
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(i) Policies relating to labour and employment:
(1) to make competent and professional the labour force that has remained as the main socio-economic strength of the country and enhance employment within the country, while ensuring a situation enabling all to work,
(2) to guarantee social security, while ensuring the basic rights of all labours, in consonance with the concept of decent labour,
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(j) Policies relating to social justice and inclusion:
(1) to keep on making appropriate arrangements for the livelihoods of the helpless single women, while according priority to them in employment on the basis of skills, competency and qualification,
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(4) to evaluate economically the work and contribution such as maintenance of children and care of families,
… (Art. 51) - Nepaliराज्यले देहायका नीतिहरू अवलम्बन गर्नेछ ः–
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(झ) श्रम र रोजगार सम्बन्धी नीतिः
(१) सबैले काम गर्न पाउने अवस्था सुनिश्चित गर्दै देशको मुख्य सामाजिक आर्थिक शक्तिको रूपमा रहेको श्रमशक्तिलाई दक्ष र व्यावसायिक बनाउने र स्वदेशमा नै रोजगारी अभिवृद्धि गर्ने,
(२) मर्यादित श्रमको अवधारणा अनुरूप सबै श्रमिकको आधारभूत अधिकार सुनिश्चित गर्दै सामाजिक सुरक्षा प्रत्याभूत गर्ने,
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(ञ) सामाजिक न्याय र समावेशीकरण सम्बन्धी नीतिः
(१) असहाय अवस्थामा रहेका एकल महिलालाई सीप, क्षमता र योग्यताको आधारमा रोजगारीमा प्राथमिकता दिंदै जीविकोपार्जनकालागि समुचित व्यवस्था गर्दै जाने,
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(४) बालबच्चाको पालन पोषण, परिवारको हेरचाह जस्ता काम र योगदानलाई आर्थिक रूपमा मूल्यांकन गरिने,
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Employment Rights and Protection
Spain
- EnglishFree enterprise is recognised within the framework of a market economy. The public authorities guarantee and protect its exercise and the safeguarding of productivity in accordance with the demands of the general economy and, as the case may be, of economic planning. (Sec. 38)
- SpanishSe reconoce la libertad de empresa en el marco de la economía de mercado. Los poderes públicos garantizan y protegen su ejercicio y la defensa de la productividad, de acuerdo con las exigencias de la economía general y, en su caso, de la planificación. (Art. 38)
Employment Rights and Protection
Switzerland
- English1 Economic freedom is guaranteed.
2 Economic freedom includes in particular the freedom to choose an occupation as well as the freedom to pursue a private economic activity. (Art. 27) - French1 La liberté économique est garantie.
2 Elle comprend notamment le libre choix de la profession, le libre accès à une activité économique lucrative privée et son libre exercice. (Art. 27) - German1 Die Wirtschaftsfreiheit ist gewährleistet.
2 Sie umfasst insbesondere die freie Wahl des Berufes sowie den freien Zugang zu einer privatwirtschaftlichen Erwerbstätigkeit und deren freie Ausübung. (Art. 27) - Italian1 La libertà economica è garantita.
2 Essa include in particolare la libera scelta della professione, il libero accesso a un’attività economica privata e il suo libero esercizio. (Art. 27)
Employment Rights and Protection
Costa Rica
- EnglishWork is a right of the individual and an obligation with society. The State must procure that everyone has an honest and useful occupation, duly remunerated, and because of this to impede the establishment of conditions that in some form diminish the freedom or the dignity of man or degrade his work to the condition of simple merchandise. The State guarantees the right to free election of [a] job. (Art. 56)
- SpanishEl trabajo es un derecho del individuo y una obligación con la sociedad. El Estado debe procurar que todos tengan ocupación honesta y útil, debidamente remunerada, e impedir que por causa de ella se establezcan condiciones que en alguna forma menoscaben la libertad o la dignidad del hombre o degraden su trabajo a la condición de simple mercancía. El Estado garantiza el derecho de libre elección de trabajo. (Art. 56)
Employment Rights and Protection
Bangladesh
- EnglishIt shall be a fundamental responsibility of the State to attain, through planned economic growth, a constant increase of productive forces and a steady improvement in the material and cultural standard of living of the people, with a view to securing to its citizens –
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(b) the right to work, that is the right to guaranteed employment at a reasonable wage having regard to the quantity and quality of work;
(c) the right to reasonable rest, recreation and leisure;
… (Art. 15) - Bengaliরাষ্ট্রের অন্যতম মৌলিক দায়িত্ব হইবে পরিকল্পিত অর্থনৈতিক বিকাশের মাধ্যমে উৎপাদনশক্তির ক্রমবৃদ্ধি সাধন এবং জনগণের জীবনযাত্রার বস্তুগত ও সংস্কৃতিগত মানের দৃঢ় উন্নতিসাধন, যাহাতে নাগরিকদের জন্য নিম্নলিখিত বিষয়সমূহ অর্জন নিশ্চিত করা যায়:
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(খ) কর্মের অধিকার, অর্থাৎ কর্মের গুণ ও পরিমাণ বিবেচনা করিয়া যুক্তিসঙ্গত মজুরীর বিনিময়ে কর্মসংস্থানের নিশ্চয়তার অধিকার;
(গ) যুক্তিসঙ্গত বিশ্রাম, বিনোদন ও অবকাশের অধিকার;
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Employment Rights and Protection
Tajikistan
- EnglishEveryone shall have the right to leisure. Establishing working weeks and days, paid annual leaves, weekly days off, and other conditions prescribed by law, shall ensure this right. (Art. 37)
- RussianКаждый имеет право на отдых. Это право обеспечивается путем установления продолжительности рабочего дня и недели, предоставления оплачиваемого ежегодного отпуска, еженедельных дней отдыха и иными условиями, предусмотренными законом. (Статья 37)
- TajikШаҳрванд ҳуқуқи истироҳат дорад. Ин ҳуқуқ бо роҳи муқаррар кардани ҳафта ва рӯзи корӣ, рухсатии ҳарсолаи пулӣ пардохтшаванда, рӯзҳои ҳарҳафтаинаи истироҳат ва шароитҳои дигаре таъмин карда мешавад, ки қонун муайян кардааст. (Моддаи 37)
Employment Rights and Protection
New Zealand
- English(1) Where—
(a) a request of the kind described in section 62(1) is made to an employee; or
(b) an employee is subjected to behaviour of the kind described in section 62(2) or section 63—
by a person who is a customer or a client of the employee's employer, the employee may make a complaint in writing about that request or behaviour to the employee's employer.
(2) The employer, on receiving a complaint under subsection (1),—
(a) shall inquire into the facts; and
(b) if satisfied that such a request was made or that such behaviour took place,— shall take whatever steps are practicable to prevent any repetition of such a request or of such behaviour.
(3) Where any person, being a person in relation to whom an employee has made a complaint under subsection (1),—
(a) either—
(i) makes to that employee after the complaint a request of the kind described in section 62(1); or
(ii) subjects that employee after the complaint to behaviour of the kind described in section 62(2) or section 63; and
(b) the employer of that employee has not taken whatever steps are practicable to prevent the repetition of such a request or such behaviour,— that employer shall be deemed to have committed a breach of this Act and the provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly. (Human Rights Act 1993, Sec. 69)6
Employment Rights and Protection
Cuba
- EnglishWorkers have the right to a break, which is guaranteed through the eight-hour workday, a weekly break, and annual paid vacations.
The law defines other cases in which exceptions may be made to approve alternative workdays or working systems, with the necessary proportion of time devoted to work and breaks. (Art. 67) - SpanishLa persona que trabaja tiene derecho al descanso, que se garantiza por la jornada de trabajo de ocho horas, el descanso semanal y las vacaciones anuales pagadas.
La ley define aquellos otros supuestos en los que excepcionalmente se pueden aprobar jornadas y regímenes diferentes de trabajo, con la debida correspondencia entre el tiempo de trabajo y el descanso. (Art. 67)
Employment Rights and Protection
United Arab Emirates
- EnglishA citizen is free to choose his work, profession or trade as provided in law and subject to the governing legislation. … (Art. 34)
- Arabicكل مواطن حر في اختيار عمله أو مهنته أو حرفته في حدود القانون، وبمراعاة التشريعات المنظمة لبعض هذه المهن والحرف… (المادّة 34)
Employment Rights and Protection
Benin
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The law determines fundamental principles:
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- of the right to work, of social security,
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La loi détermine les principes fondamentaux:
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- du droit du travail, de la sécurité sociale,
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