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Article 35 The State recognises the right of every citizen to work and to just and favourable conditions of work and with a view to ensuring the effective exercise of these rights the State undertakes - a. to take necessary measures to achieve and maintain a high and stable level of employment, as is practicable, with a view to attaining full employment; b. subject to such restrictions as are necessary in a democratic society, to protect effectively the right of a citizen to earn a dignified living in a freely chosen occupation, profession or trade; c. to promote vocational guidance and training; d. to make and enforce statutory provisions for safe, healthy and fair conditions of work, including reasonable rest, leisure, paid holidays, remuneration which guarantees, as a minimum, dignified and decent living conditions for. the workers and their families, fair and equal wages for work of equal value without distinction and stability of employment; e. to promote machinery for voluntary negotiations between employers and workers or their organisations with a view to the regulation of conditions of employment by means of collective agreements; f. to promote the establishment and use of appropriate machinery for conciliation and voluntary arbitrations for the settlement of labour disputes; g. subject to such restrictions as are necessary in a democratic society, and necessary for safeguarding public order, for the protection of health or morals and the rights and freedoms of others, to ensure the right of workers to organise trade unions and to guarantee the right to strike.