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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishWE HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE that, subject to any restrictions imposed by law on noncitizens, all persons in our country are entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, that is to say, the right, whatever their race, tribe, places of origin, political opinion, colour, creed or sex, but subject to respect for the rights and freedoms of others and for the legitimate public interest, to each of the following:-
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(e) freedom of employment and freedom of movement;
… (Preamble, Basic Rights)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishAll employers must adopt in their enterprises the necessary measures for the hygiene and safety [seguridad] of work. (Art. 66)
- SpanishTodo patrono debe adoptar en sus empresas las medidas necesarias para la higiene y seguridad del trabajo. (Art. 66)
Employment Rights and Protection
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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།
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Employment Rights and Protection
- English1. Every person has the right to practice any profession or to carry on any occupation, trade or business.
2. The exercise of this right may be subject to such formalities, conditions or restrictions as are prescribed by law and relate exclusively to the qualifications usually required for the exercise of any profession or are necessary only in the interests of the security of the Republic or the constitutional order or the public safety or the public order or the public health or the public morals or for the protection of the rights and liberties guaranteed by this Constitution to any person or in the public interest:
Provided that no such formalities, conditions or restrictions purporting to be in the public interest shall be prescribed by a law if such formality, condition or restriction is contrary to the interests of either Community.
… (Art. 25) - Greek1. Έκαστος έχει το δικαίωμα να ασκή οιονδήποτε επάγγελμα ή να επιδίδεται εις οιανδήποτε απασχόλησιν, εμπόριον ή επικερδή εργασίαν.
2. Η άσκησις του δικαιώματος τούτου δύναται να υπαχθή εις τους υπό του νόμου τιθεμένους όρους, περιορισμούς ή διατυπώσεις, αναφερομένους αποκλειστικώς εις τα συνήθως απαιτούμενα διά την άσκησιν οιουδήποτε επαγγέλματος προσόντα ή οίτινες είναι απαραίτητοι μόνον προς το συμφέρον της ασφαλείας της Δημοκρατίας ή της συνταγματικής τάξεως ή της δημοσίας ασφαλείας ή της δημοσίας τάξεως ή της δημοσίας υγιείας ή των δημοσίων ηθών ή της προστασίας των δικαιωμάτων και ελευθεριών των ηγγυημένων υπό του Συντάγματος εις οιονδήποτε πρόσωπον ή προς το δημόσιον συμφέρον υπό τον όρον ότι διατυπώσεις, όροι και περιορισμοί δεν θα τίθενται διά νόμου κατ’ επίκλησιν του δημοσίου συμφέροντος εφ’ όσον είναι αντίθετοι προς τα συμφέροντα εκατέρας κοινότητος.
… (Αρθρον 25) - Turkish1. Her şahıs; herhangi bir meslek, sanat, ticaret veya iş ile meşgul olma hakkına sahiptir.
2. Bu hakkın kullanılması, münhasıran bir mesleğin yürütülmesinde genellikle gerekli vasıflara dair ya da yalnız Cumhuriyet güvenliği veya anayasal düzen veya kamu güvenliği veya kamu düzeni veya kamu sağlığı veya kamu ahlakı yararına veya bu Anayasanın herhangi bir şahsa sağladığı hak ve hürriyetlerin korunması veya kamu yararı için kanunla düzenlenen formalitelere, şartlara veya kısıtlamalara tabi tutulabilir:
Ancak bir formalite, şart veya kısıtlama, iki Cemaatten herhangi birinin menfaatlerine aykırı ise böyle bir formalite, şart veya kısıtlama kamu yararına olduğu iddiasıyla kanunla düzenlenemez.
... (Madde 25)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishCitizens, working on hire, shall be entitled to a paid rest. The number of working hours and paid labour leave shall be specified by law. (Art. 38)
- UzbekYollanib ishlayotgan barcha fuqarolar dam olish huquqiga egadirlar. Ish vaqti va haq to‘lanadigan mehnat ta’tilining muddati qonun bilan belgilanadi. (38-modda)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe State recognizes to all citizens the right to work and strives [s’efforce] to create the conditions that render the enjoyment of this right effective. It recognizes the right that every person has to enjoy just and satisfactory conditions of work and guarantees to the worker the just retribution for their services or for their production. (Art. 54)
- KirundiLeta iremera ko abanyagihugu bose bakwiye kuronka uburenganzira bw’akazi. Irakora uko ishobora wose kugira ishireho ibikenewe kugira ubwo burenganzira bushobore kujamu ngiro. lrubahiriza umukozi wese kugira ngo aronke impembo ikwiranye n’amabanga arangura canke umwimbu wiwe kandi akabaho mu buryo bwiza kandi bushimishije. (Ingingo ya 54)
- FrenchL’Etat reconnaît à tous les citoyens le droit au travail et s’efforce de créer des conditions qui rendent la jouissance de ce droit effective. Il reconnaît le droit qu’a toute personne de jouir des conditions de travail justes et satisfaisantes et garantit au travailleur la juste rétribution de ses services ou de sa production. (Art. 54)
Employment Rights and Protection
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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.
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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
- EnglishEveryone has the right to lead a life in keeping with human dignity.
To this end, the laws, federate laws and rules referred to in Article 134 guarantee economic, social and cultural rights, taking into account corresponding obligations, and determine the conditions for exercising them.
These rights include among others:
1° the right to employment and to the free choice of an occupation within the context of a general employment policy, aimed among others at ensuring a level of employment that is as stable and high as possible, the right to fair terms of employment and to fair remuneration, as well as the right to information, consultation and collective negotiation;
… (Art. 23) - DutchIeder heeft het recht een menswaardig leven te leiden.
Daartoe waarborgen de wet, het decreet of de in artikel 134 bedoelde regel, rekening houdend met de overeenkomstige plichten, de economische, sociale en culturele rechten, waarvan ze de voorwaarden voor de uitoefening bepalen.
Die rechten omvatten inzonderheid:
1° het recht op arbeid en op de vrije keuze van beroepsarbeid in het raam van een algemeen werkgelegenheidsbeleid dat onder meer gericht is op het waarborgen van een zo hoog en stabiel mogelijk werkgelegenheidspeil, het recht op billijke arbeidsvoorwaarden en een billijke beloning, alsmede het recht op informatie, overleg en collectief onderhandelen;
... (Art. 23) - FrenchChacun a le droit de mener une vie conforme à la dignité humaine.
A cette fin, la loi, le décret ou la règle visée à l’article 134 garantissent, en tenant compte des obligations correspondantes, les droits économiques, sociaux et culturels, et déterminent les conditions de leur exercice.
Ces droits comprennent notamment:
1° le droit au travail et au libre choix d’une activité professionnelle dans le cadre d’une politique générale de l’emploi, visant entre autres à assurer un niveau d’emploi aussi stable et élevé que possible, le droit à des conditions de travail et à une rémunération équitables, ainsi que le droit d’information, de consultation et de négociation collective;
… (Art. 23) - GermanJeder hat das Recht, ein menschenwürdiges Leben zu führen.
Zu diesem Zweck gewährleistet das Gesetz, das Dekret oder die in Artikel 134 erwähnte Regel unter Berücksichtigung der entsprechenden Verpflichtungen die wirtschaftlichen, sozialen und kulturellen Rechte und bestimmt die Bedingungen für ihre Ausübung.
Diese Rechte umfassen insbesondere:
1. das Recht auf Arbeit und auf freie Wahl der Berufstätigkeit im Rahmen einer allgemeinen Beschäftigungspolitik, die unter anderem darauf ausgerichtet ist, einen Beschäftigungsstand zu gewährleisten, der so stabil und hoch wie möglich ist, das Recht auf gerechte Arbeitsbedingungen und gerechte Entlohnung sowie das Recht auf Information, Konsultation und kollektive Verhandlungen;
… (Art. 23)
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
- EnglishAll citizens have the right to the security of the employment and to receive a remuneration proportional to the quantity and to the quality of the work provided.
Men and women receive an identical remuneration for equal work. (Art. 38) - Arabicيحق لجميع المواطنين بالتوظيف الآمن والحصول على أجر متناسب مع كمية ونوعية العمل المقدّم.
يحصل الرجل والمرأة على أجر متطابق عن العمل المتساوي. (المادة 38) - FrenchTous les citoyens ont droit à la sécurité de l'emploi et à percevoir une rémunération proportionnelle à la quantité et à la qualité du travail fourni.
Les hommes et les femmes perçoivent une rémunération identique pour un travail égal. (Art. 38)