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2- Labor Right: Labor Law no (58) for 1970 regulated working
relations between workers and different employers. Upon the
issuance of the Green Book and the Great Green Human Rights
Charter, these relations have developed into partner rather than
employee relations, with this statement ensuring wide-scale
protection of human effort, signaling a landmark transformation
in adjusting work relations and securing their protection against
exploitation. The Libyan legislator thus has adequately attended
to this right and issued many laws, decisions and operational
procedures in application of the articles of the Charter.
The most critical of these laws and documents is the Great
Green Human Rights Charter with its Art. (11) stating that:
"The right to work is one of the basic human rights. The mass
society guarantees labor right. Labor is the obligation and right
of every individual. "As for the Freedom Promotion Act, it
emphasizes the right of every citizen to work and to freely
choose the work he deems suitable and to enjoy its output as
provided for in Articles (10) and (11) of this Law.
The new Labor Law issued on 22/11/2010 under the title of
"Working Relations Law" assuredly furthered and effectuated
guarantees of economic human rights. Perusing this Law,
features promoting protection of human right to work can be
recorded briefly as follows:
1- The Law applied equality of treatment between workers of
public and private sectors in terms of right to labor, freedom
of worker and equality of employment, thereby doing away
with discrimination between types of work, between workers
and with regard to benefits accorded to each sector;
2- The Law duly regarded labor right as human right to effort
output, thus preventing exploitation by one another;
3- Based work relationships chiefly on economic unity to help
create a productive rather than a consumer community
thereby underscoring freedom of society, its control over its
destinies and ensuring its self-reliance. (Art.12)