C002 - Unemployment Convention, 1919 (No. 2)
Convention
concerning Unemployment (Entry into force: 14 Jul 1921)
Adoption: Washington, 1st ILC session (28 Nov 1919)
Preamble
The
General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
Having
been convened at Washington by the Government of the United States of America
on the 29th day of October 1919, and
Having
decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the
"question of preventing or providing against unemployment", which is
the second item in the agenda for the Washington meeting of the Conference, and
Having
determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international
Convention,
adopts
the following Convention, which may be cited as the Unemployment Convention,
1919, for ratification by the Members of the International Labour Organisation
in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the International
Labour Organisation:
Article
1
Each
Member which ratifies this Convention shall communicate to the International
Labour Office, at intervals as short as possible and not exceeding three
months, all available information, statistical or otherwise, concerning
unemployment, including reports on measures taken or contemplated to combat
unemployment. Whenever practicable, the information shall be made available for
such communication not later than three months after the end of the period to
which it relates.
Article
2
- 1. Each Member which ratifies
this Convention shall establish a system of free public employment
agencies under the control of a central authority. Committees, which shall
include representatives of employers and of workers, shall be appointed to
advise on matters concerning the carrying on of these agencies.
- 2. Where both public and
private free employment agencies exist, steps shall be taken to
co-ordinate the operations of such agencies on a national scale.
- 3. The operations of the various
national systems shall be co-ordinated by the International Labour Office
in agreement with the countries concerned.
Article
3
The
Members of the International Labour Organisation which ratify this Convention
and which have established systems of insurance against unemployment shall,
upon terms being agreed between the Members concerned, make arrangements
whereby workers belonging to one Member and working in the territory of another
shall be admitted to the same rates of benefit of such insurance as those which
obtain for the workers belonging to the latter.
Article
4
The
formal ratifications of this Convention, under the conditions set forth in the
Constitution of the International Labour Organisation, shall be communicated to
the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.
Article
5
- 1. Each Member of the
International Labour Organisation which ratifies this Convention engages
to apply it to its colonies, protectorates and possessions which are not
fully self-governing--
- (a) except where owing to the
local conditions its provisions are inapplicable; or
- (b) subject to such
modifications as may be necessary to adapt its provisions to local
conditions.
- 2. Each Member shall notify to
the International Labour Office the action taken in respect of each of its
colonies, protectorates, and possessions which are are not fully
self-governing.
Article
6
As
soon as the ratifications of three Members of the International Labour
Organisation have been registered with the International Labour Office, the
Director-General of the International Labour Office shall so notify all the
Members of the International Labour Organisation.
Article
7
This
Convention shall come into force at the date on which such notification is
issued by the Director-General of the International Labour Office, but it shall
then be binding only upon those Members which have registered their
ratifications with the International Labour Office. Thereafter this Convention
will come into force for any other Member at the date on which its ratification
is registered with the International Labour Office.
Article
8
Each
Member which ratifies this Convention agrees to bring its provisions into
operation not later than 1 July 1921, and to take such action as may be
necessary to make these provisions effective.
Article
9
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 with the International Labour Office.
Article
10
At
such times as it may consider necessary the Governing Body of the International
Labour Office shall present to the General Conference a report on the working
of this Convention and shall examine the desirability of placing on the agenda
of the Conference the question of its revision in whole or in part.
Article
11
The
French and English texts of this Convention shall both be authentic.
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