(Qualified) to work?

roadsafety.ie

Hi,

In the following sentance:

"The Courts have ruled that these unenumerated personal rights include:

The right to bodily integrity, the right not to have one's health endangered by the State, the (qualified) right to work and to earn a livelihood"......

What is meant by Qualified?

Cheers,

Fyi I found this here

Tom Young

Qualified in that context should be read conditional or qualified based on some condition but not an automatic right in the sense of being able to challenge the state or a private party for not allowing you to work in some job you are not academically or practically able to undertake.

Tom

roadsafety.ie

Thanks Tom,

lets say a mature professional returns to University, is already a fully qualified teacher and completes all academic requirements and placement in a school.

But on the last day of term is handed a letter requesting a meeting, and following that meeting is told that she will not be recieving her diploma until she has completed a program of counselling which they determine, for a full year. And a report is sent back to them from the terapist and they are satisfied with the report.

Also she is informed that she is not to work in the area of which the diploma is for.

She subsequently succeeded in obtaining work and entered a course of Counselling herself to apease them.


3 years later and now they are saying because she did not complete the counselling they wanted by 2008 they are completely refusing to accredit the diploma.

Among perhaps other things, is this a breach of the constitutional rights??

Cheers.