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Employment Rights and Protection
Equatorial Guinea
- EnglishApart from those cases expressly provided for in other Articles of this Fundamental Law, the following are matters reserved to the law:
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n) The fundamental principles of … labor rights, and social security.
… (Art. 69) - SpanishAparte de los casos expresamente previstos en otros artículos de esta Ley Fundamental, son materias reservadas a la ley las siguientes:
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n) Los principios fundamentales de … el derecho laboral y la seguridad social.
… (Art. 69) - FrenchOutre les cas expressément prévus dans d'autres articles de cette Loi fondamentale, les matières suivantes relèvent du domaine de la loi:
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n) Les principes fondamentaux relatifs… au droit du travail et à la sécurité sociale.
… (Art. 69)
Employment Rights and Protection
South Sudan
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2. Women shall have the right to equal pay for equal work and other related benefits with men.
… (Art. 16)
Employment Rights and Protection
Paraguay
- EnglishThe workers have right to enjoy a remuneration that assures, them and their families, of a free and dignifying life. The law will consecrate the minimum and mobile living wage [salario vital], the annual year-end bonus [aguinaldo], the family bonuses, the recognition of a superior salary to the basic for hours of [a] unsanitary or risky work, and the extraordinary, night and holiday hours. Basically, equal salary for equal work corresponds. (Art. 92)
- SpanishEl trabajador tienen derechos a disfrutar de una remuneración que le asegure, a él y a su familia, una existencia libre y digna.
La ley consagrará el salario vital mínimo, el aguinaldo anual, la bonificación familiar, el reconocimiento de un salario superior al básico por horas de trabajo insalubre o riesgoso, y las horas extraordinarias, nocturnas y en días feriados. Corresponde, básicamente, igual salario por igual trabajo. (Art. 92)
Employment Rights and Protection
India
- EnglishThe State shall, in particular, direct its policy towards securing—
(a) that the citizens, men and women equally, have the right to an adequate means of livelihood;
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(d) that there is equal pay for equal work for both men and women;
(e) that the health and strength of workers, men and women, and the tender age of children are not abused and that citizens are not forced by economic necessity to enter avocations unsuited to their age or strength;
… (Art. 39) - Hindiराज्य अपनी नीति का, विशिष्टतया, इस प्रकार संचालन करेगा कि सुनिश्चित रूप से—
(क) पुरुष और स्त्री सभी नागरिकों को समान रूप से जीविका के पर्याप्त साधन प्राप्त करने का अधिकार हो;
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(घ) पुरुषों और स्त्रियों दोनों का समान कार्य के लिए समान वेतन हो;
(ड.) पुरुष और स्त्री कर्मकारों के स्वास्थ्य और शक्ति का तथा बालकों की सुकुमार अवस्था का दुरुपयोग न हो और आर्थिक आवश्यकता से विवश होकर नागरिकों को ऐसे रोजगारों में न जाना पड़े जो उनकी आयु या शक्ति के अनुकूल न हों;
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Employment Rights and Protection
Lithuania
- EnglishEvery working person shall have the right to rest and leisure, as well as to an annual paid leave.
The length of working time shall be established by law. (Art. 49) - LithuanianKiekvienas dirbantis žmogus turi teisę turėti poilsį ir laisvalaikį, taip pat kasmetines mokamas atostogas.
Darbo laiko trukmę apibrėžia įstatymas. (49 straipsnis)
Employment Rights and Protection
Zimbabwe
- English(1) The State and all institutions and agencies of government at every level must adopt reasonable policies and measures, within the limits of the resources available to them, to provide everyone with an opportunity to work in a freely chosen activity, in order to secure a decent living for themselves and their families.
(2) The State and all institutions and agencies of government at every level must endeavour to secure—
(a) full employment;
(b) the removal of restrictions that unnecessarily inhibit or prevent people from working and otherwise engaging in gainful economic activities;
(c) vocational guidance and the development of vocational and training programmes, including those for persons with disabilities; and
(d) the implementation of measures such as family care that enable women to enjoy a real opportunity to work. (Sec. 24)
Employment Rights and Protection
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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WHEREAS the Peoples of the Island of Saint Vincent, who are known as Vincentians-
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c. realize that the maintenance of human dignity presupposes safeguarding the rights of privacy of family life, of property and the fostering of the pursuit of just economic rewards for labor;
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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
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
Bolivia, Plurinational State of
- EnglishI. The following are the areas of prerogative authority of the central level of the State:
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21. Substantive and procedural codification in civil, family, criminal, tax, labor, commercial, mining and electoral matters.
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II. The central level of the State has exclusive authority over the following:
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31. Labor policies and systems.
… (Art. 298) - SpanishI. Son competencias privativas del nivel central del Estado:
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21. Codificación sustantiva y adjetiva en materia civil, familiar, penal, tributaria, laboral, comercial, minería y electoral.
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II. Son competencias exclusivas del nivel central del Estado:
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31. Políticas y régimen laborales
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