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Employment Rights and Protection
- English1. Labour is the driving force of development and shall merit respect and protection.
2. The State shall promote the fair distribution of the proceeds of labour.
3. The State maintains that everyone should receive equal pay for equal work. (Art. 112) - Portuguese1. O trabalho é a força motriz do desenvolvimento e é dignificado e protegido.
2. O Estado propugna a justa repartição dos rendimentos do trabalho.
3. O Estado defende que a trabalho igual deve corresponder salário igual. (Art. 112)
Employment Rights and Protection
- 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
- EnglishHomeworkers shall have a legal status analogous to that of other workers, with due consideration for the peculiarities of their work. (Art. 130)
- SpanishSe reconoce al trabajador a domicilio una situación jurídica análoga a la de los demás trabajadores habida consideración de las particularidades de su labor. (Art. 130)
Employment Rights and Protection
- 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
- English… The law determines the fundamental principles:
…
- … of the right to work, of the syndical right and of social security;
… (Art. 67) - French… La loi détermine les principes fondamentaux :
...
- ... du droit du travail, du droit syndical et de la sécurité sociale,
... (Art. 67)
Employment Rights and Protection
- 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)4
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishA like wage or salary shall always be paid for like work under identical conditions, irrespective of the person who performs it, without taking into account sex, nationality, age, race, social standing, political or religious ideologies. (Art. 67)
- SpanishA trabajo igual en idénticas condiciones, corresponde siempre igual salario o sueldo, cualesquiera que sean las personas que lo realicen, sin distinción de sexo, nacionalidad, edad, raza, clase social, ideas políticas o religiosas. (Art. 67)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English1. Every person has the right to enter freely into any contract subject to such conditions, limitations or restrictions as are laid down by the general principles of the law of contract. A law shall provide for the prevention of exploitation by persons who are commanding economic power.
2. A law may provide for collective labour contracts of obligatory fulfilment by employers and workers with adequate protection of the rights of any person, whether or not represented at the conclusion of such contract. (Art. 26) - Greek1. Έκαστος έχει το δικαίωμα του συμβάλλεσθαι ελευθέρως. Τούτο υπέκειται εις όρους, περιορισμούς ή δεσμεύσεις τιθεμένους επί τη βάσει των γενικών αρχών του δικαίου των συμβάσεων. Νόμος θέλει προβλέψει διά την πρόληψιν εκμεταλλεύσεως υπό προσώπων, άτινα διαθέτουσιν ιδιάζουσαν οικονομικήν ισχύν.
2. Νόμος δύναται να ρυθμίση τας συλλογικάς συμβάσεις εργασίας, υποχρεωτικώς εφαρμοζομένας υπό των εργοδοτών και των εργαζομένων, προστατευομένων επαρκώς των δικαιωμάτων οιουδήποτε ατόμου αδιακρίτως της αντιπροσωπεύσεως τούτου κατά την σύναψιν τοιαύτης συμβάσεως. (Αρθρον 26) - Turkish1. Her şahıs, sözleşme hukukunun genel ilkelerinin belirlediği şartlar, sınırlamalar veya kısıtlamalara tabi olmak kaydıyla serbestçe sözleşme yapma hakkına sahiptir. Ekonomik gücü yöneten şahıslar tarafından istismarı kanun önler.
2. Bir kanun, işverenler ve işçiler arasında mecburi toplu iş sözleşmeleri yapılmasını, böyle bir sözleşmenin akdinde temsil edilen veya edilmeyen herhangi bir şahsın haklarını uygun şekilde korumak üzere sağlayabilir. (Madde 26)
Employment Rights and Protection
- 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
- English(1) Every person has the right to work.
(2) Every citizen is entitled to equal opportunity and right to equal terms to hold any office or discharge any function under the state authority. (Art. 22)