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It encourages and sees to the security of private investments, national and foreign.
• Protection from expropriation
One may only be deprived of his property for reasons of public utility and in return
for a just and prior indemnity conceded under the conditions established by the law.
• Protection from expropriation
One may only have their assets seized by virtue of a decision taken by competent
judicial authority.
Article 35
The State guarantees the right to private initiative to both nationals and to
foreigners.
It encourages the exercise of small commerce, of art and of artisanship by the
Congolese and sees to the protection and to the promotion of national expertise and
competences.
The law establishes the modalities of exercise of this right.
Article 36
Work is a sacred right and duty for each Congolese.
• Right to work
• Right to equal pay for work
The State guarantees the right to work, protection against unemployment and an
equitable and satisfactory remuneration, assuring the worker as well as his family of
an existence in accordance with human dignity, together with all the other means of
social protection, notably retirement pension[s] and life annuities.
No one may discriminated against [leser] in their work because of their origin, their
sex, their opinions, their beliefs or their socio-economic condition.
• Duty to work
All Congolese have the right and the duty to contribute through their work to the
national construction and prosperity.
The law establishes the status of workers and regulates the particulars concerning
the juridical regime of the professional orders and the exercise of professions which
require a scholastic or academic qualification.
The internal structures and the functioning of the professional orders must be
democratic.
• Freedom of association
Article 37
The State guarantees the freedom of association.
The public powers collaborate with the associations which contribute to the social,
economic, intellectual, moral and spiritual development of the population and to the
education of the citizens [masculine] and the citizens [feminine]
This collaboration may take the form of a subsidy.
The law establishes the modalities of the exercise of this freedom.
• Right to join trade unions
Article 38
The syndical right is recognized and is guaranteed.
All Congolese have the right to found trade unions or to affiliate with them freely,
under the conditions established by the law.
• Right to strike
Article 39
Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2005 (rev. 2011)
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