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right to work en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɹaɪt tə wɝk/ (US)
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• /ɹaɪt tə wɜːk/ (UK)

Meanings

1. (qualifier:public policy) 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.
2. (US, qualifier:public policy) 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.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see right, work.

Forms

Relateds

right to strike · Rand formula

Translations (15)

bg право на труд (the fundamental human right to have employment) · fr droit au travail (the fundamental human right to have employment) · fi oikeus työhön (the fundamental human right to have employment) · nl recht op werk (the fundamental human right to have employment) · de Recht auf Arbeit (the fundamental human right to have employment) · it diritto al lavoro (the fundamental human right to have employment) · pl prawo do pracy (the fundamental human right to have employment) · ja 働く権利 (the fundamental human right to have employment) · hu a munkához való jog (the fundamental human right to have employment) · es derecho al trabajo (prohibition of closed shops) · cmn 工作權 /工作权 (the fundamental human right to have employment) · es derecho a trabajar (the fundamental human right to have employment) · es derecho al trabajo (the fundamental human right to have employment) · nl recht op arbeid (the fundamental human right to have employment) · ru пра́во на труд (the fundamental human right to have employment)