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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishWork is a right, a duty, and a social function that is exercised with the protection and assistance of the State. It is an essential purpose of the State to foment dignified and paid employment. The public powers shall promote the dialogue and agreement between workers, employers, and the State. Consequently:
1. The State guarantees the equality and equity of women and men in the exercise of the right to work.
2. No one may impede the work of others nor obligate them to work against their will.
3. Union freedom, social security, collective negotiation, professional training, respect for one’s physical and intellectual abilities, privacy, and personal dignity are, among others, the basic rights of male and female workers.
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5. All kinds of discrimination in access to employment or during the extension of services are prohibited, excluding the exceptions provided for by law with the goal of protecting the worker
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7. The law shall dictate, according to what is required by the general interest, the workdays, the days of rest and vacations, the minimum wage and its forms of payment, the participation of nationals in all work, the participation of workers in the benefits of the business and, in general, all the minimum means that are considered necessary in favor of workers, including special regulations for informal work in the home and any other form of human work. The State shall make use of the means at its disposal so that workers may acquire the tools and instruments that are indispensable to their work.
8. It is the obligation of all employers to guarantee their workers adequate conditions of safety, health standards, hygiene, and work environment. The State shall adopt means to promote the creation of petitions integrated by employers and workers for the attainment of these goals
9. All workers have the right to a wage that is just and sufficient to permit them to live with dignity and cover the basic material, social, and intellectual needs of themselves and their families. The payment of equal wages for work of equal value is guaranteed, without discrimination by gender or of another type and in identical conditions of ability, efficiency, and seniority.
… (Art. 62) - SpanishEl trabajo es un derecho, un deber y una función social que se ejerce con la protección y asistencia del Estado. Es finalidad esencial del Estado fomentar el empleo digno y remunerado. Los poderes públicos promoverán el diálogo y concertación entre trabajadores, empleadores y el Estado. En consecuencia:
1) El Estado garantiza la igualdad y equidad de mujeres y hombres en el ejercicio del derecho al trabajo;
2) Nadie puede impedir el trabajo de los demás ni obligarles a trabajar contra su voluntad;
3) Son derechos básicos de trabajadores y trabajadoras, entre otros: la libertad sindical, la seguridad social, la negociación colectiva, la capacitación profesional, el respeto a su capacidad física e intelectual, a su intimidad y a su dignidad personal;
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5) Se prohíbe toda clase de discriminación para acceder al empleo o durante la prestación del servicio, salvo las excepciones previstas por la ley con fines de proteger al trabajador o trabajadora;
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7) La ley dispondrá, según lo requiera el interés general, las jornadas de trabajo, los días de descanso y vacaciones, los salarios mínimos y sus formas de pago, la participación de los nacionales en todo trabajo, la participación de las y los trabajadores en los beneficios de la empresa y, en general, todas las medidas mínimas que se consideren necesarias a favor de los trabajadores, incluyendo regulaciones especiales para el trabajo informal, a domicilio y cualquier otra modalidad del trabajo humano. El Estado facilitará los medios a su alcance para que las y los trabajadores puedan adquirir los útiles e instrumentos indispensables a su labor;
8) Es obligación de todo empleador garantizar a sus trabajadores condiciones de seguridad, salubridad, higiene y ambiente de trabajo adecuados. El Estado adoptará medidas para promover la creación de instancias integradas por empleadores y trabajadores para la consecución de estos fines;
9) Todo trabajador tiene derecho a un salario justo y suficiente que le permita vivir con dignidad y cubrir para sí y su familia necesidades básicas materiales, sociales e intelectuales. Se garantiza el pago de igual salario por trabajo de igual valor, sin discriminación de género o de otra índole y en idénticas condiciones de capacidad, eficiencia y antigüedad;
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Employment Rights and Protection
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Rights of the employees and their families to social protection and insurance shall be regulated by the law.
The employees shall have the right to salary compensation in case of temporary inability to work, as well as the right to temporary unemployment benefit in accordance with the law.
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Права запослених и њихових породица на социјално обезбеђење и осигурање уређују се законом.
Запослени има право на накнаду зараде у случају привремене спречености за рад, као и право на накнаду у случају привремене незапослености, у складу са законом.
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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe State must promote the well-being of the citizens, to protect and to defend the rights of the human person and the defenders of human rights.
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It guarantees the equal access to public employment.
… (Art. 23) - FrenchL'État doit promouvoir le bien- être des citoyens, protéger et défendre les droits de la personne humaine et les défenseurs des droits humains.
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Il garantit l'égal accès aux emplois publics.
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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe State shall--
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(e) make provision for securing just and humane conditions of work, ensuring that children and women are not employed in vocations unsuited to their age or sex, and for maternity benefits for women in employment;
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(ہ) منصفانہ اور نرم شرائط کار، اس امر کی ضمانت دیتے ہوئے کہ بچوں اور عورتوں سے ایسے پیشوں میں کام نہ لیا جائے گا جو ان کی عمر یا جنس کے لیے نا مناسب ہوں، مقرر کرنے کے لیے، اور ملازم عورتوں کے لیے زچگی سے متعلق مراعات دینے کے لیے، احکام وضع کرے گی؛
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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe working woman will have the right to remunerated leave before and after childbirth, and to the conservation of her employment.
The laws will regulate the obligation of the employers to install and maintain rooms for infants [salas cunas] and day care places [lugares de custodia] for the children of the workers. (Art. 42) - SpanishLa mujer trabajadora tendrá derecho a un descanso remunerado antes y después del parto, y a la conservación del empleo.
Las leyes regularán la obligación de los patronos de instalar y mantener salas cunas y lugares de custodia para los niños de los trabajadores. (Art. 42)
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
- EnglishIn addition to the issues that are directed to it by other Articles of the Constitution:
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II. The law determines the general principles:
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3°. of the right to work, of the syndical right, of the right to strike and of social welfare;
… (Art. 95) - FrenchOutre les questions qui lui sont renvoyées par d’autres articles de la Constitution :
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II – La loi détermine les principes généraux :
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3. du droit du travail, du droit syndical, du droit de grève et de la prévoyance sociale ;
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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
- EnglishEvery citizen has the right to rest, recreation and leisure. The State in co-operation with co-operatives, trade unions and other socio-economic organisations will guarantee this right by prescribing hours and conditions of work and by establishing holiday arrangements for workers, including a complex of cultural, educational and health institutions. (Art. 23)
Employment Rights and Protection
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(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