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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe State guarantees workers equal working conditions and wages regardless of their sex, beliefs, opinions and marital status. (Art. 35-2)
- FrenchL'Etat garantit au travailleur, l'égalité des conditions de travail et de salaire quel que soit son sexe, ses croyances, ses opinions et son statut matrimonial. (Art. 35.2)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe law guarantees stability for workers in their jobs, in accordance with the characteristics of industries and professions, and just causes of severance. Whenever an injustifiable discharge occurs upon final judgment, the worker shall be entitled at his option to compensation for unpaid wages damages, and to the legal indemnity as well as the indemnity agreed to, or else to be reinstated with recognition of unpaid wages, as actual and consequential damages. (Art. 129)
- SpanishLa Ley garantiza la estabilidad de los trabajadores en sus empleos, de acuerdo con las características de las industrias y profesiones, y las justas causas de separación. Cuando el despido injustificado surta efecto y firme que sea, la sentencia condenatoria respectiva, el trabajador tendrá derecho a su elección, a una remuneración en concepto de salarios dejados de percibir, a título de daños y perjuicios, y a las indemnizaciones legales y convencionalmente previstas; o, a que se le reintegre al trabajo con el reconocimiento de salarios dejados de percibir, a título de daños y perjuicios. (Art. 129)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishEveryone shall have the right to freely use his/her abilities and property for entrepreneurial and other economic activity that is not prohibited by law. (Art. 47)
- RussianКаждый человек имеет право на свободное использование своих способностей и имущества для предпринимательской и иной экономической деятельности, не запрещённой законом. (Статья 47)
- TurkmenHer bir adamyň telekeçilik we kanunda gadagan edilmedik gaýry ykdysady işi üçin öz ukyplaryny we emlägini erkin peýdalanmaga hukugy bardyr. (47-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,
… (Art. 139) - Arabic
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
- EnglishEveryone has the right to work and the right to seek [prétendre] employment. No one may be impeded in their work for reason of their origins, of their sex, of their opinions, of their political choices or of their beliefs. The worker may affiliate with a union and defend their rights through union action.
Any discrimination between men and women in employment, salary and taxation [impôt] is forbidden. ...
Every worker participates, by the intermediary of his delegates, in the determination of the conditions of work in the enterprise. The State sees to sanitary and humane conditions in the places of work.
Specific laws establish the conditions of assistance and of protection which the State and the enterprise accord to the workers. (Art. 25) - FrenchChacun a le droit de travailler et le droit de prétendre à un emploi. Nul ne peut être lésé dans son travail en raison de ses origines, de son sexe, de ses opinions, de ses choix politiques ou de ses croyances. Le travailleur peut adhérer à un syndicat et défendre ses droits par l'action syndicale.
Toute discrimination entre l'homme et la femme devant l'emploi, le salaire et l'impôt est interdite. ...
Tout travailleur participe, par l'intermédiaire de ses délégués, à la détermination des conditions de travail dans l'entreprise. L'Etat veille aux conditions sanitaires et humaines dans les lieux de travail.
Des lois particulières fixent les conditions d'assistance et de protection que l'Etat et l'entreprise accordent aux travailleurs. (Art. 25)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishRules of periodic adjustment of the minimum salary or wage of the worker shall be set by law, to cover the normal requirements of his/her family, to improve worker's standard of living according to specific conditions of each economic region and activity. The law may also determine the method of fixing minimum salaries or wages for professions or trades.
Whenever job or piece work is performed, it is obligatory that the minimum wage be ensured for each day's work.
The minimum of all wages or salaries is un-attachable, except for support obligations as established by law. Working tools of the workmen are also un-attachable. (Art. 66) - SpanishLa Ley establecerá la manera de ajustar periódicamente el salario o sueldo mínimo del trabajador, con el fin de cubrir las necesidades normales de su familia, mejorar su nivel de vida, según las condiciones particulares de cada región y de cada actividad económica; podrá determinar asimismo el método para fijar salarios o sueldos mínimos por profesión u oficio.
En los trabajos por tarea o pieza, es obligatorio que quede asegurado el salario mínimo por pieza o jornada.
El mínimo de todo salario o sueldo es inembargable, salvo las obligaciones alimenticias en la forma que establezca la Ley. Son también inembargables los instrumentos de labor de los trabajadores. (Art. 66)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishAll persons have the right to work, to their promotion through work, and to just income which shall guarantee a living befitting human dignity for themselves and their families, as well as to reasonable limitation of the working day, weekly rest and paid vacation. (Art. 29)
- CatalanTota persona té dret al treball, a la promoció per mitjà del treball, a una remuneració que garanteixi al treballador I a la seva família una existència conforme a la dignitat humana, així com a la limitació raonable de la jornada laboral, al repòs setmanal I a les vacances pagades. (Art. 29)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English(1) Bills shall be passed by Parliament.
(2) The following shall be reserved to the legislative power:
(a) The fundamental rights, guarantees and obligations of the citizen:
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(3) labour legislation, trade union legislation, rules governing social security and insurance;
… (Art. 26) - French(1) La loi est votée par le Parlement.
(2) Sont du domaine de la loi:
a- Les droits, garanties et obligations fondamentaux du citoyen:
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(3) Le droit du travail, le droit syndical, le régime de la protection sociale;
... (Art. 26)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English(1) The state authority shall make appropriate provisions for the realization of a person’s right to work, … Without prejudice to those rights, the state authority shall make provisions to ensure that every person earns his livelihood.
... (Art. 11)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishAll persons have the right to dedicate themselves to the legal economic activity of their preference, within a regime of equal opportunities.
… (Art. 107) - SpanishToda persona tiene derecho a dedicarse a la actividad económica lícita de su preferencia, dentro de un régimen de igualdad de oportunidades.
… (Art. 107)