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Employment Rights and Protection
- English(1) It shall be unlawful for any person (in the course of that person’s involvement in any of the areas to which this subsection is applied by subsection (3)) to make a request of any other person for sexual intercourse, sexual contact, or other form of sexual activity which contains an implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or an implied or overt threat of detrimental treatment.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any person (in the course of that person’s involvement in any of the areas to which this subsection is applied by subsection (3)) by the use of language (whether written or spoken) of a sexual nature, or of visual material of a sexual nature, or by physical behaviour of a sexual nature, to subject any other person to behaviour that—
(a) is unwelcome or offensive to that person (whether or not that is conveyed to the first-mentioned person); and
(b) is either repeated, or of such a significant nature, that it has a detrimental effect on that person in respect of any of the areas to which this subsection is applied by subsection (3).
(3) The areas to which subsections (1) and (2) apply are—
(a) the making of an application for employment:
(b) employment, which term includes unpaid work:
(c) participation in, or the making of an application for participation in a partnership:
(d) membership, or the making of an application for membership, of an industrial union or professional or trade association:
(e) access to any approval, authorisation, or qualification:
(f) vocational training, or the making of an application for vocational training:
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(4) Where a person complains of sexual harassment, no account shall be taken of any evidence of the person’s sexual experience or reputation. (Human Rights Act 1993, Sec. 62)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishThe Congress will enact [expedir] the statute of labor. The corresponding law shall take into account at least the following minimal fundamental principles:
Equality of opportunities for workers; minimum vital and mobile [movil] remuneration, proportional to the quantity and quality of work; stability in employment; irremovability of the minimum benefits established in labor norms; faculties to settle and reconcile uncertain and arguable rights; a situation more favorable to the worker in case of doubt in the application and interpretation of the formal sources of law; the primacy of reality over formalities established by those subject to labor relations; guarantee to social security, capacitation, instruction, and necessary rest; special protection of women, motherhood, and the minor-age worker.
The State guarantees the right to suitable payment and the periodic adjustment of legal pensions.
International agreements [concerning] labor duly ratified, are part of the internal legislation.
The law, contracts, accords, and agreements [concerning] labor may not diminish the freedom, human dignity, or the rights of workers. (Art. 53) - SpanishEl Congreso expedirá el estatuto del trabajo. La ley correspondiente tendrá en cuenta por lo menos los siguientes principios mínimos fundamentales:
Igualdad de oportunidades para los trabajadores; remuneración mínima vital y móvil, proporcional a la cantidad y calidad de trabajo; estabilidad en el empleo; irrenunciabilidad a los beneficios mínimos establecidos en normas laborales; facultades para transigir y conciliar sobre derechos inciertos y discutibles; situación más favorable al trabajador en caso de duda en la aplicación e interpretación de las fuentes formales de derecho; primacía de la realidad sobre formalidades establecidas por los sujetos de las relaciones laborales; garantía a la seguridad social, la capacitación, el adiestramiento y el descanso necesario; protección especial a la mujer, a la maternidad y al trabajador menor de edad.
El estado garantiza el derecho al pago oportuno y al reajuste periódico de las pensiones legales.
Los convenios internacionales del trabajo debidamente ratificados, hacen parte de la legislación interna.
La ley, los contratos, los acuerdos y convenios de trabajo, no pueden menoscabar la libertad, la dignidad humana ni los derechos de los trabajadores. (Art. 53)
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishI. The Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan determines the general rules on the following matters:
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16. labor relations and social security;
… (Art. 94) - AzerbaijaniI. Azərbaycan Respublikasının Milli Məclisi aşağıdakı məsələlərə dair ümumi qaydalar müəyyən edir:
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16) əmək münasibətləri və sosial təminat;
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Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishCitizens shall have the right to rest, as expressed in establishment of limits of work week, grant of annual paid holidays, and days of weekly rest.
The state shall create enabling environment for recreation and use of leisure time. (Art. 50) - RussianКаждый человек имеет право на отдых, которое выражается в установлении рабочей недели ограниченной продолжительности, предоставлении ежегодных оплачиваемых отпусков, дней еженедельного отдыха.
Государство создаёт для человека благоприятные условия отдыха и использования свободного времени. (Статья 50) - TurkmenHer bir adamyň dynç almaga hukugy bardyr we ol iş hepdesiniň çäklendirilen dowamlylygynyň bellenmeginden, her ýylky tölegli zähmet rugsatlarynyň, her hepdede dynç günleriniň berilmeginden ybaratdyr.
Döwlet adam üçin dynç almaga we boş wagtyny peýdalanmaga amatly şertleri döredýär. (50-nji madda)
Employment Rights and Protection
- English1. Work shall be the right and duty of all.
2. Every worker shall have the right to vocational training, fair pay, rest days, holidays, protection, and workplace health and safety, in accordance with the law.
3. In order to ensure the right to work, the state shall be charged with promoting:
a) The implementation of policies to generate work;
b) Equal opportunities in the choice of profession or type of work and conditions which prevent preclusion or limitation due to any form of discrimination;
c) Academic training and scientific and technological development, as well as vocational development for workers.
4. Dismissal without fair cause shall be illegal and employers shall be obliged to pay just compensation for workers who have been dismissed, under the terms of the law. (Art. 76) - Portuguese1. O trabalho é um direito e um dever de todos.
2. Todo o trabalhador tem direito à formação profissional, justa remuneração, descanso, férias, protecção, higiene e segurança no trabalho, nos termos da lei.
3. Para assegurar o direito ao trabalho, incumbe ao Estado promover:
a) A implementação de políticas de emprego;
b) A igualdade de oportunidades na escolha da profissão ou género de trabalho e condições para que não seja vedado ou limitado por qualquer tipo de discriminação;
c) A formação académica e o desenvolvimento científico e tecnológico, bem como a valorização profissional dos trabalhadores.
4. O despedimento sem justa causa é ilegal, constituindo-se a entidade empregadora no dever de justa indemnização ao trabalhador despedido, nos termos da lei. (Art. 76)
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.
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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།
... ༼རྩ་ཚན་༧༽
Employment Rights and Protection
- EnglishCitizens, working on hire, shall be entitled to a paid rest. The number of working hours and paid labour leave shall be specified by law. (Art. 38)
- UzbekYollanib ishlayotgan barcha fuqarolar dam olish huquqiga egadirlar. Ish vaqti va haq to‘lanadigan mehnat ta’tilining muddati qonun bilan belgilanadi. (38-modda)
Employment Rights and Protection
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The law determines the fundamental principles:
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- of the right to work, … (Art. 101) - French
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La loi détermine les principes fondamentaux:
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- du droit du travail, … (Art. 101)
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
- EnglishEveryone has the right to lead a life in keeping with human dignity.
To this end, the laws, federate laws and rules referred to in Article 134 guarantee economic, social and cultural rights, taking into account corresponding obligations, and determine the conditions for exercising them.
These rights include among others:
1° the right to employment and to the free choice of an occupation within the context of a general employment policy, aimed among others at ensuring a level of employment that is as stable and high as possible, the right to fair terms of employment and to fair remuneration, as well as the right to information, consultation and collective negotiation;
… (Art. 23) - DutchIeder heeft het recht een menswaardig leven te leiden.
Daartoe waarborgen de wet, het decreet of de in artikel 134 bedoelde regel, rekening houdend met de overeenkomstige plichten, de economische, sociale en culturele rechten, waarvan ze de voorwaarden voor de uitoefening bepalen.
Die rechten omvatten inzonderheid:
1° het recht op arbeid en op de vrije keuze van beroepsarbeid in het raam van een algemeen werkgelegenheidsbeleid dat onder meer gericht is op het waarborgen van een zo hoog en stabiel mogelijk werkgelegenheidspeil, het recht op billijke arbeidsvoorwaarden en een billijke beloning, alsmede het recht op informatie, overleg en collectief onderhandelen;
... (Art. 23) - FrenchChacun a le droit de mener une vie conforme à la dignité humaine.
A cette fin, la loi, le décret ou la règle visée à l’article 134 garantissent, en tenant compte des obligations correspondantes, les droits économiques, sociaux et culturels, et déterminent les conditions de leur exercice.
Ces droits comprennent notamment:
1° le droit au travail et au libre choix d’une activité professionnelle dans le cadre d’une politique générale de l’emploi, visant entre autres à assurer un niveau d’emploi aussi stable et élevé que possible, le droit à des conditions de travail et à une rémunération équitables, ainsi que le droit d’information, de consultation et de négociation collective;
… (Art. 23) - GermanJeder hat das Recht, ein menschenwürdiges Leben zu führen.
Zu diesem Zweck gewährleistet das Gesetz, das Dekret oder die in Artikel 134 erwähnte Regel unter Berücksichtigung der entsprechenden Verpflichtungen die wirtschaftlichen, sozialen und kulturellen Rechte und bestimmt die Bedingungen für ihre Ausübung.
Diese Rechte umfassen insbesondere:
1. das Recht auf Arbeit und auf freie Wahl der Berufstätigkeit im Rahmen einer allgemeinen Beschäftigungspolitik, die unter anderem darauf ausgerichtet ist, einen Beschäftigungsstand zu gewährleisten, der so stabil und hoch wie möglich ist, das Recht auf gerechte Arbeitsbedingungen und gerechte Entlohnung sowie das Recht auf Information, Konsultation und kollektive Verhandlungen;
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