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PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW COMPENDIUM VOLUME II

2. This Convention shall in any case remain in force in its

actual form and content for those Members which have

ratified it but have not ratified the revising Convention.

ARTICLE 14

The English and French versions of the text of this

Convention are equally authoritative.

The foregoing is the authentic text of the Convention duly

adopted by the General Conference of the International

Labour

Organisation

during

its

forty-second

session

which was held at Geneva and declared closed the

twenty-sixth day of June 1958.

In faith whereof we have appended our signatures this

fifth day of July 1958.

(Discrimination

(Employment

and

Occupation)

Convention, [June 25, 1958])

Employment Policy Convention

July 9, 1964

EMPLOYMENT POLICY CONVENTION *

The

General

Conference of the International Labour

Organisation ,

Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body

of the International Labour Office, and having met in its

forty-eighth session on 17 June 1964, and

Considering

that

the

Declaration

of

Philadelphia

recognises the solemn obligation of the International

Labour Organisation to further among the nations of the

world programmes which will achieve full employment

and the raising of standards of living, and that the

Preamble to the Constitution of the International Labour

Organisation

provides

for

the

prevention

of

unemployment and the provision of an adequate living

wage, and

Considering

further

that

under

the

terms

of

the

Declaration of Philadelphia it is the responsibility of the

International

Labour

Organisation

to

examine

and

consider the bearing of economic and financial policies

upon employment policy in the light of the fundamental

objective that "all human beings, irrespective of race,

creed or sex, have the right to pursue both their material

well-being and their spiritual development in conditions

of freedom and dignity, of economic security and equal

opportunity", and

Considering that the Universal Declaration of Human

Rights provides that "everyone has the right to work, to

free

choice

of

employment,

to

just

and

favourable

conditions

of

work

and

to

protection

against

unemployment", and

Noting

the

terms

of

existing

international

labour

Conventions and Recommendations of direct relevance

to

employment

policy,

and

in

particular

of

the

Employment Service Convention and Recommendation,

1948, the Vocational Guidance Recommendation, 1949,

the Vocational Training Recommendation, 1962, and the

Discrimination

(Employment

and

Occupation)

Convention and Recommendation, 1958, and

Considering that these instruments should be placed in

the wider framework of an international programme for

economic expansion on the basis of full, productive and

freely chosen employment, and

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals

with regard to employment policy, which are included in

the eighth item on the agenda of the session, and

Having determined that these proposals shall take the

form of an international Convention,

Adopts this ninth day of July of the year one thousand

nine hundred and sixty-four the following Convention,

which

may

be

cited

as

the

Employment

Policy

Convention, 1964:

ARTICLE 1

1. With a view to stimulating economic growth and

development, raising levels of living, meeting manpower

requirements

and

overcoming

unemployment

and

under-employment,

each

Member

shall

declare and

pursue, as a major goal, an active policy designed to

promote full, productive and freely chosen employment.

2. The said policy shall aim at ensuring that:

(a) There is work for all who are available for and seeking

work;

(b) Such work is as productive as possible;

(c) There is freedom of choice of employment and the

fullest possible opportunity for each worker to qualify for,

and to use his skills and endowments in, a job for which

he is well suited, irrespective of race, colour, sex, religion,

political opinion, national extraction or social origin.

3. The said policy shall take due account of the stage and

level

of

economic

development

and

the

mutual

relationships between employment objectives and other

economic and social objectives, and shall be pursued by

methods that are appropriate to national conditions and

practices.

ARTICLE 2

Each Member shall, by such methods and to such extent

as may be appropriate under national conditions:

(a)

Decide

on

and

keep

under

review,

within

the

framework of a coordinated economic and social policy,

the measures to be adopted for attaining the objectives

specified in article 1;

(b) Take such steps as may be needed, including when

appropriate the establishment of programmes, for the

application of these measures.

ARTICLE 3

In the application of this Convention, representatives of

the persons affected by the measures to be taken, and in

particular representatives of employers and workers, shall

be consulted concerning employment policies, with a

view to taking fully into account their experience and

views and securing their full co-operation in formulating

and enlisting support for such policies.

ARTICLE 4

The

formal

ratifications

of

this

Convention shall be

communicated

to

the

Director-General

of

the

International Labour Office for registration.

ARTICLE 5

1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those

Members of the International Labour Organisation whose

ratifications

have

been

registered

with

the

Director-General.

2. It shall come into force twelve months after the date on

which

the

ratifications

of

two Members have been

registered with the Director-General.

3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any

Member twelve months after the date on which its

ratification has been registered.

ARTICLE 6

1. A Member which has ratified this Convention may

denounce it after the expiration of ten years from the

date on which the Convention first comes into force, by

an act communicated to the Director-General of the

International

Labour

Office

for

registration.

Such

denunciation shall not take effect until one year after the

date on which it is registered.

2. Each Member which has ratified this Convention and

which does not, within the year following the expiration

of the period of ten years mentioned in the preceding

paragraph, exercise the right of denunciation provided for

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