right to work

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹaɪt tə wɜːk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹaɪt tə wɝk/

Noun

right to work (plural rights to work)

1. (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.

2. (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.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see right,‎ work.

Translations

the fundamental human right to have employment

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 工作權／工作权 (gōngzuò quán)

• Dutch: recht op arbeid n, recht op werk n
• Finnish: oikeus työhön
• French: droit au travail m
• German: Recht auf Arbeit n
• Hungarian: a munkához való jog
• Italian: diritto al lavoro m
• Japanese: 働く権利 (はたらくけんり, hataraku kenri)
• Polish: prawo do pracy n
• Russian: пра́во на труд n (právo na trud)
• Spanish: derecho al trabajo m, derecho a trabajar m

prohibition of closed shops

• Spanish: derecho al trabajo m

See also

• Rand formula
• right to strike