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  2. Right to sit - Wikipedia

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    The right to sit refers to laws or policies granting workers the right to be granted suitable seating at the workplace. Jurisdictions that have enshrined "right to sit" laws or policies include Austria, Japan, Germany, Mexico, France, Spain, Argentina, the United Kingdom, Jamaica, South Africa, Eswatini, Cameroon, Tanzania, Uganda, Lesotho ...

  3. Peerage Act 1963 - Wikipedia

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    The Act resulted largely from the protests of Labour politician Tony Benn, then the 2nd Viscount Stansgate. [1] Under British law at the time, peers of England, peers of Great Britain and peers of the United Kingdom who met certain qualifications, such as age (21), were automatically members of the House of Lords and could not sit in or vote in elections for the other chamber, the House of ...

  4. Life Peerages Act 1958 - Wikipedia

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    The Act allowed for the creation of female peers entitled to sit in the House of Lords. The first four such women peers were: Barbara Wootton and Stella Isaacs, who were sworn in on 21 October 1958, and Katharine Elliot and Irene Curzon, who took office the next day. [3] [4]

  5. Right to sit in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Missouri passed a right to sit law for women workers in 1885. [citation needed] In 1973, the Missouri Attorney General ruled that employers must provide seating for both sexes, or in cases where standing was necessary, no seating for either sex. [8] Missouri's right to sit law was repealed on August 28, 2007. [113] [24]

  6. Hereditary peer - Wikipedia

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    The law applicable to a British hereditary peerage depends on which Kingdom it belongs to. Peerages of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom follow English law; the difference between them is that peerages of England were created before the Act of Union 1707, peerages of Great Britain between 1707 and the Union with Ireland in 1800, and peerages of the United Kingdom since 1800.

  7. Peerage law - Wikipedia

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    In 1999, when the House of Lords Bill sought to deprive hereditary peers of the automatic right to sit in the House of Lords, the question arose as to whether or not such a bill would violate the Treaty of Union uniting England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain. The House of Lords referred the entire question to the Committee for ...

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  9. Category:Right to sit - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Right to sit" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Chair law; Consolidation of Labor Laws; F. Factories Act, 1948 ...