1987. Különkiadvány, 1987.10.01 / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
individual's income-earning activity of a priváté natúré. The attached amplification that makes the right to vork a civil right ia meaningless and nőt binding on the State in any vay. Today vhen unemployment has become a condition shared by many people, an amendment to suitably modify the Constitution's cited provieions is unavoidable.- In harmony vith the constitutional amendment, it vili be neceBsary to rescind all the statutory regulationa that make an idle life-style in itBelf punishable. First of all, "generál vagrancy" as a criminal offense vili have to be abolished. Employers could abuse the threat of punishment to pay lover vages and keep their vorkers in line.- The box fór occupation sbould be deleted on personal identification cards. Identification fór loans and purchases on credit can be solved alsó vith other, less official proof of employment from one's vorkplace, or vith credit card6. One's personal identification number should suffice fór administrative registration. The police should nőt inquire about a person's employment, except in criminal investigát ions. The employer should nőt exercise official povers.- Official decisions should nőt depend on recommendations from one's piacé of vork. The employer's approval or support must nőt be required in such matters as an application fór a passport or telephoné.- As a rule, the employer should have no say in vhat the employee does outside the vorkplace or hov he lives. In jobs vhere the employee can be required to observe certain standardé alsó in his priváté life (fór example, a teacher must nőt be an alcoholic), these standardé must be specified in the contract of employment. Bút such requirements may nőt restrict the employee in exercising his civil rights (the teacher, say, may nőt be prohibited from attending church).- The employee's political vievs and his behavior outside the vorkplace are nőt the employer's concem. The Labor Code should prohibit the employer from calling an employee to account fór political activity outside the vorkplace. There must be no official interference in the exercise of the employer's rights.- The vorkplace cannot be used as a tool fór the citiren's official surveillance. Let the Labor Code declare that the employer may provide informát ion about an employee only at the latter's request or vith his knovledge and approval. The informát ion may concern only the vorker's performance and earnings at his vorkplace.- The gathering of informát ion at vorkplaces by the Ministry of the Interior must cease. The informátion-gathering activity of the miniBtry and its organs must be regulated by lav. The lav should start out from the generál experience that a mere inquiry about an employee's person places him at a disadvantage at his vorkplace. The police should be alloved to request A V / 3 *
