right to work

Definitions

1. The human right (the right of an individual) to have gainful employment.
2. 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.
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3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see right, work.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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