Private_Employment_Agencies_Convention,_1997
Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997
International Labour Organization Convention
Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 is an International Labour Organization Convention.
It was established in 1997, with the preamble stating:
Recalling the provisions of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930, the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948, the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949, the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958, the Employment Policy Convention, 1964, the Minimum Age Convention, 1973, the Employment Promotion and Protection against Unemployment Convention, 1988, and the provisions relating to recruitment and placement in the Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949, and the Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the revision of the Fee-Charging Employment Agencies Convention (Revised), 1949,...
This Convention applies to all private employment offices, to all categories of workers and to all branches of economic activity. It does not apply to the recruitment and accommodation of seafarers. The purpose of the convention is to enable all private employment agencies to operate and to ensure the protection of workers using their services within the limits of its provisions. According to the convention, private employment agencies have to treat all employees equally without discrimination because of race, color, sex, religion, political opinion, national exclusion or social origin.[1]
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