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C181 - Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181)
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Preamble
The General Conference of the International Labour Organization,
Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Eighty-fifth Session on 3
June 1997, and
Noting the provisions of the Fee-Charging Employment Agencies Convention (Revised), 1949, and
Being aware of the importance of flexibility in the functioning of labour markets, and
Recalling that the International Labour Conference at its 81st Session, 1994, held the view that the ILO should proceed to revise the FeeCharging Employment Agencies Convention (Revised), 1949, and
Considering the very different environment in which private employment agencies operate, when compared to the conditions prevailing when
the above-mentioned Convention was adopted, and
Recognizing the role which private employment agencies may play in a well-functioning labour market, and
Recalling the need to protect workers against abuses, and
Recognizing the need to guarantee the right to freedom of association and to promote collective bargaining and social dialogue as necessary
components of a well-functioning industrial relations system, and
Noting the provisions of the Employment Service Convention, 1948, and
Recalling the provisions of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930, the Freedom of Association and the 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, which is the fourth item on the agenda of the session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention;
adopts, this nineteenth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven, the following Convention, which may be cited as
the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997:
Article 1
1. For the purpose of this Convention the term private employment agency means any natural or legal person, independent of the public
authorities, which provides one or more of the following labour market services:
(a) services for matching offers of and applications for employment, without the private employment agency becoming a party to the
employment relationships which may arise therefrom;