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Employment Rights and Protection
- English…
34. Labour, including trade unions, industrial relations; conditions, safety and welfare of labour; industrial disputes; prescribing a national minimum wage for the Federation or any part thereof; and industrial arbitration.
… (Second Schedule – Legislative Powers, Part I – Exclusive Legislative List)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe State should promote abilities of the people to engage in work which is appropriate to their potentials and ages, and ensure that they have work to engage in. The State should protect labour to ensure safety and vocational hygiene, and receive income, welfare, social security and other benefits which are suitable for their living, and should provide for or promote savings for living after their working age. ... (Sec. 74)
- Thaiรัฐพึงส่งเสริมให้ประชาชนมีความสามารถในการทํางานอย่างเหมาะสมกับศักยภาพและวัย และให้มีงานทํา และพึงคุ้มครองผู้ใช้แรงงานให้ได้รับความปลอดภัยและมีสุขอนามัยที่ดีในการทํางาน มี รายได้ สวัสดิการ การประกันสังคม และสิทธิประโยชน์อื่นที่เหมาะสมแก่การดํารงชีพ และพึงจัดให้มีหรือส่งเสริมการออมเพื่อการดํารงชีพเมื่อพ้นวัยทํางาน ... (มาตรา ๗๔)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English
The workers have the right to conditions of work that assure to them[,] especially:
1. Equal pay [salario] for equal work in identical conditions, adequate to their social responsibility, without discrimination for political, religious, [or] social reasons, [reasons] of sex or of any other type [clase], that assures to them a well being compatible with human dignity.
2. To be remunerated in legal tender at their place [centro] of work.
3. The minimum wage and social security payments [are] not attachable, except for protection of their [su] family and in the terms that the law establishes.
4. Conditions of work that guarantee to them physical integrity, health, hygiene and the minimization of occupational [profesionales] risks to make effective the occupational [ocupacional] security of the worker.
5. A work day of eight hours, weekly rest, vacations, remuneration for national holidays and a thirteenth month bonus [salario] in accordance with the law.
6. Stability in the job in accordance with the law[,] and equal opportunity to be promoted [promovido], without greater limitations than the factors of time [tiempo], service, capacity, efficiency and responsibility.
7. Social security for integral protection and measures of subsistence in cases of disability, age, occupational risks, illness or maternity, and to their relations in cases of death, in the form and conditions that the law determines. (Art. 82) - Spanish
Los trabajadores tienen derecho a condiciones de trabajo que les aseguren en especial:
1) Salario igual por trabajo igual en idénticas condiciones, adecuado a su responsabilidad social, sin discriminaciones por razones políticas, religiosas, sociales, de sexo o de cualquier otra clase, que les asegure un bienestar compatible con la dignidad humana.
2) Ser remunerado en moneda de curso legal en su centro de trabajo.
3) La inembargabilidad del salario mínimo y las prestaciones sociales, excepto para protección de su familia y en los términos que establezca la ley.
4) Condiciones de trabajo que les garanticen la integridad física, la salud, la higiene y la disminución de los riesgos profesionales para hacer efectiva la seguridad ocupacional del trabajador.
5) Jornada laboral de ocho horas, descanso semanal, vacaciones, remuneración por los días feriados nacionales y salario por décimo tercer mes de conformidad con la ley.
6) Estabilidad en el trabajo conforme a la ley e igual oportunidad de ser promovido, sin más limitaciones que los factores de tiempo, servicio, capacidad, eficiencia y responsabilidad.
7) Seguridad social para protección integral y medios de subsistencia en casos de invalidez, vejez, riesgos profesionales, enfermedad y maternidad; y a sus familiares en casos de muerte, en la forma y condiciones que determine la ley. (Art. 82)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English(1) Anything done or omitted which would otherwise constitute a breach of any of the provisions of this Part8 shall not constitute such a breach if—
(a) it is done or omitted in good faith for the purpose of assisting or advancing persons or groups of persons, being in each case persons against whom discrimination is unlawful by virtue of this Part; and
(b) those persons or groups need or may reasonably be supposed to need assistance or advancement in order to achieve an equal place with other members of the community.
(2) Nothing in this Part—
(a) limits the power of the Crown to establish or arrange work or training schemes or employment assistance measures, eligibility for which may, in whole or in part, be determined by a person’s age, employment status, or family status; or
(b) makes it unlawful for any person to recruit or refer any other person who is of a particular age or of a particular employment status or of a particular family status for any work or training scheme or employment assistance measure that is established or arranged by the Crown, the eligibility for which may, in whole or in part, be determined by a person’s age, employment status, or family status. (Human Rights Act 1993, Sec. 73)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishEvery citizen has the right to choose their trade, occupation or profession freely. The practice of a trade, occupation or profession may be regulated by law. (Sec. 22)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishEveryone shall have the right to work, free choice of work, fair conditions of labour and protection against unemployment in the procedure specified by law.
… (Art. 37) - UzbekHar bir shaxs mehnat qilish, erkin kasb tanlash, adolatli mehnat sharoitlarida ishlash va qonunda ko‘rsatilgan tartibda ishsizlikdan himoyalanish huquqiga egadir.
… (37-modda)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe workers of both sexes have the same labor rights and obligations, but maternity will be subject to special protection, that will include the assistance services and the corresponding leaves of absence [descansos], which will not be less than 12 weeks. A woman may not be terminated [despedida] during the pregnancy, or as long as the leaves of absence for maternity continue.
The law will establish the regime of paternity licenses. (Art. 89) - SpanishLos trabajadores de uno y otro sexo tienen los mismos derechos y obligaciones laborales, pero la maternidad será objeto de especial protección, que comprenderá los servicios asistenciales y los descansos correspondientes, los cuales no serán inferiores a doce semanas. La mujer no será despedida durante el embarazo, y tampoco mientras duren los descansos por maternidad.
La ley establecerá el régimen de licencias por paternidad. (Art. 89)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English
The State sees to the constant amelioration of the conditions of work and to the protection of the worker. (Art. 20)
- French
L’Etat veille à l’amélioration constante des conditions de travail et à la protection du travailleur. (Art. 20)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English1. The Government shall create an economic environment which encourages individual initiative and self-reliance among the people, so as to promote investment, employment and wealth.
… (Art. 10)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe House of Representatives shall:
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2) consider draft laws, including … on the principles regulating labour and employment
… (Art. 97) - BelarusianПалата прадстаўнікоў:
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2) разглядае праекты законаў, у тым ліку … аб прынцыпах рэгулявання працы і занятасці
… (Артыкул 97) - RussianПалата представителей:
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2) рассматривает проекты законов, в том числе … о принципах регулирования труда и занятости
… (Статья 97)