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Employment Rights and Protection
Colombia
- EnglishIt is the obligation of the State and of employers to offer professional and technical training to those who require it. The State must promote the job placement of the persons of working age and guarantee to the handicapped the right to a job in accordance with their health conditions. (Art. 54)
- SpanishEs obligación del Estado y de los empleadores ofrecer formación y habilitación profesional y técnica a quienes lo requieran. El Estado debe propiciar la ubicación laboral de las personas en edad de trabajar y garantizar a los minusválidos el derecho a un trabajo acorde con sus condiciones de salud. (Art. 54)
Employment Rights and Protection
Bahrain
- Englisha. Work is the duty of every citizen, is required by personal dignity and is dictated by the public good. Every citizen has the right to work and to choose the type of work within the bounds of public order and decency.
b. The State guarantees the provision of job opportunities for its citizens and the fairness of work conditions.
c. Compulsory work cannot be imposed on any person except in the cases specified by law for national exigency and for a fair consideration, or pursuant to a judicial ruling.
d. The law regulates the relationship between employees and employers on economic basis while observing social justice. (Art. 13) - Arabicأ - العمل واجب على كل مواطن، تـقـتضيه الكرامة ويستوجبه الخير العام، ولكل مواطن الحق في العمل وفي اختيار نوعه وفقا للنظام العام والآداب.
ب - تكفل الدولة توفير فرص العمل للمواطنين وعدالة شروطه.
ج - لا يجوز فرض عمل إجباري على أحد إلا في الأحوال التي يعينها القانون لضرورة قومية وبمقابل عادل، أو تـنفيذا لحكم قضائي.
د - ينظم القانون، على أسس اقـتصادية مع مراعاة قواعد العدالة الاجتماعية، العلاقة بين العمال وأصحاب الأعمال. (المادّة 13)
Employment Rights and Protection
Latvia
- EnglishEvery employed person has the right to receive, for work done, commensurate remuneration which shall not be less than the minimum wage established by the State, and has the right to weekly holidays and a paid annual vacation. (Art. 107)
- LatvianIkvienam darbiniekam ir tiesības saņemt veiktajam darbam atbilstošu samaksu, kas nav mazāka par valsts noteikto minimumu, kā arī tiesības uz iknedēļas brīvdienām un ikgadēju apmaksātu atvaļinājumu. (Art. 107)
Employment Rights and Protection
Cuba
- EnglishAll people have the right for their work to be remunerated according to its quality and quantity, which expresses the socialist principle of distribution: "from each according to their ability, to each according to their labor." (Art. 65)
- SpanishToda persona tiene derecho a que su trabajo se remunere en función de la calidad y cantidad, expresión del principio de distribución socialista “de cada cual según su capacidad, a cada cual según su trabajo”. (Art. 65)
Employment Rights and Protection
Japan
- English(1) All people shall have the right and the obligation to work.
(2) Standards for wages, hours, rest and other working conditions shall be fixed by law.
(3) Children shall not be exploited. (Art. 27) - Japanese1 すべて国民は、勤労の権利を有し、義務を負ふ。
2 賃金、就業時間、休息その他の勤労条件に関する基準は、法律でこれを定める。
3 児童は、これを酷使してはならない。(第27条)
Employment Rights and Protection
China
- EnglishWorking people in the People's Republic of China have the right to rest.
The state expands facilities for rest and recuperation of working people, and prescribes working hours and vacations for workers and staff. (Art. 43) - Chinese中华人民共和国劳动者有休息的权利。
国家发展劳动者休息和休养的设施,规定职工的工作时间和休假制度。(第四十三条)
Employment Rights and Protection
North Macedonia
- EnglishThe Republic particularly protects mothers, children and minors. A person under 15 years of age cannot be employed. Minors and mothers have the right to particular protection at work. Minors may not be employed in work which is detrimental to their health or morality. (Art. 42)
- MacedonianРепубликата посебно ги заштитува мајчинството, децата и малолетните лица. Лице помладо од 15 години живот не може да биде вработено. Малолетните лица и мајките имаат право на посебна заштита при работа. Малолетните лица не смеат да бидат вработувани на работни места што се штетни за нивното здравје и моралот. (Член 42)
Employment Rights and Protection
Guinea
- EnglishThe right to work is recognized to all. The State creates the conditions necessary for the exercise of this right.
No one may be prejudiced [lésé] in their work by virtue of their gender, of their race, of their ethnicity, of their opinions or of any other cause of discrimination.
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The law establishes the conditions for the assistance and the protection to which the workers have right. (Art. 20) - FrenchLe droit au travail est reconnu à tous. L’Etat crée les conditions nécessaires à l’exercice de ce droit.
Nul ne peut être lésé dans son travail en raison de son sexe, de sa race, de son ethnie, de ses opinions ou de toute autre cause de discrimination.
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La loi fixe les conditions d'assistance et de protection auxquelles ont droit les travailleurs. (Art. 20)
Employment Rights and Protection
El Salvador
- EnglishThe domestic worker [trabajador a domicilio] has the right to an officially designated minimum salary, and to the payment of indemnification for time lost by motive of the delay of an employer in ordering or receiving [the] work or for the arbitrary or unjustified suspension of [the] work. A juridical situation [that is] analogous to [that of] the rest of the workers will be recognized for the domestic workers, taking into consideration the peculiarity of their labor. (Art. 41)
- SpanishEl trabajador a domicilio tiene derecho a un salario mínimo oficialmente señalado, y al pago de una indemnización por el tiempo que pierda con motivo del retardo del patrono en ordenar o recibir el trabajo o por la suspensión arbitraria o injustificada del mismo. Se reconocerá al trabajador a domicilio una situación jurídica análoga a la de los demás trabajadores, tomando en consideración la peculiaridad de su labor. (Art. 41)
Employment Rights and Protection
Kyrgyzstan
- English1. Everyone shall have the right to leisure.
2. Maximum duration of work time, minimal weekly rest, paid annual leave as well as other basic modalities of the implementation of right to leisure shall be envisaged in the law. (Art. 44) - Russian1. Каждый имеет право на отдых.
2. Максимальная продолжительность рабочего времени, минимальный еженедельный отдых и оплачиваемый ежегодный отпуск, а также иные основные условия осуществления права на отдых определяются законом. (Статья 44) - Kyrgyz1. Ар ким эс алууга укуктуу.
2. Эң узак иш убактысы, жумалык эс алуунун эң кыска мөөнөтү жана жыл сайын акы төлөнүүчү өргүү, ошондой эле эс алуу укугун ишке ашыруунун башка негизги шарттары мыйзам менен аныкталат. (44-берене)