right to work
English
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editright to work (plural rights to work)
- (public policy, law, ethics) The human right (the right of an individual) to have gainful employment.
- 1948, United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 23.1), United Nations
- Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
- 1948, United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 23.1), United Nations
- (US, public policy, law) The prohibition of union security agreements or closed shops; the prohibition of the requirement that those who take on work in a unionised shop join the union or pay it for representing them.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see right, work.
Translations
editthe fundamental human right to have employment
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prohibition of closed shops
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