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Employment Rights and Protection
- English
(1) In the following matters legislation is the business of the Federation, execution that of the provinces:
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9. legislation on workers and on the protection of workers and salaried employees, provided that workers and salaried employees in agriculture and forestry are concerned.
… (Art. 11) - German
(1) Bundessache ist die Gesetzgebung, Landessache die Vollziehung in folgenden Angelegenheiten:
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9. Arbeiterrecht sowie Arbeiter- und Angestelltenschutz, soweit es sich um land- und forstwirtschaftliche Arbeiter und Angestellte handelt.
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Employment Rights and Protection
- English[The Following] are the domain of the law:
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The fundamental principles:
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– of the right to work, of the syndical right and of social security and of the regime of pensions. (Art. 80) - FrenchSont du domaine de la loi:
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Les principes fondamentaux:
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- du droit du travail, du droit syndical et de la sécurité sociale et du régime des pensions. (Art. 80)
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
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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།
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Employment Rights and Protection
- English(1) Women, adolescents, and persons with health problems have the right to increased protection of their health at work and to special work conditions.
… (Charter, Art. 29) - Czech(1) Ženy, mladiství a osoby zdravotně postižené mají právo na zvýšenou ochranu zdraví při práci a na zvláštní pracovní podmínky.
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Employment Rights and Protection
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The law determines the fundamental principles:
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- of the right to work,
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La loi détermine les principes fondamentaux :
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- du droit du travail,
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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;
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Employment Rights and Protection
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2 The State shall, in particular, direct its policy towards securing:–
i That the citizens (all of whom, men and women equally, have the right to an adequate means of livelihood) may through their occupations find the means of making reasonable provision for their domestic needs.
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4 2° The State shall endeavour to ensure that the strength and health of workers, men and women, and the tender age of children shall not be abused and that citizens shall not be forced by economic necessity to enter avocations unsuited to their sex, age or strength. (Art. 45) - Irish Gaelic…
2 Déanfaidh an Stát, go sonrach, a bheartas a stiúradh i slí go gcuirfear in áirithe:–
i Go bhfaighidh na saoránaigh (agus tá ceart acu uile, idir fhear is bean, chun leorshlí bheatha), trína ngairmeacha beatha, caoi chun soláthar réasúnta a dhéanamh do riachtanais a dteaghlach.
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4 2° Déanfaidh an Stát iarracht chun a chur in áirithe nach ndéanfar neart agus sláinte lucht oibre, idir fheara is mná, ná maoth-óige leanaí a éagóradh, agus nach mbeidh ar shaoránaigh, de dheasca uireasa, dul le gairmeacha nach n-oireann dá ngné nó dá n-aois nó dá neart. (Airteagal 45)
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.
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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishA system of professional training [formación] is established for the preparation and qualification of [the] human resources.
The law will regulate the scope, extent and form in which the system will be put into force.
The contract of apprenticeship will be regulated by the law, with the objective of assuring the apprentice training for an occupation [oficio], dignified treatment, equitable remuneration, and benefits for pension [previsión] and social security. (Art. 40) - SpanishSe establece un sistema de formación profesional para la capacitación y calificación de los recursos humanos.
La ley regulará los alcances, extensión y forma en que el sistema debe ser puesto en vigor.
El contrato de aprendizaje será regulado por la ley, con el objeto de asegurar al aprendiz enseñanza de un oficio, tratamiento digno, retribución equitativa y beneficios de previsión y seguridad social. (Art. 40)