22.
(1) Employers should take all possible measures so that migrant workers may fully understand instructions, warnings, symbols and other
signs relating to safety and health hazards at work.
(2) Where, on account of the migrant workers' lack of familiarity with processes, language difficulties or other reasons, the training or
instruction given to other workers is inadequate for them, special measures which ensure their full understanding should be taken.
(3) Members should have laws or regulations applying the principles set out in this Paragraph and provide that where employers or other
persons or organisations having responsibility in this regard fail to observe such laws or regulations, administrative, civil and penal sanctions
might be imposed.
C. SOCIAL SERVICES
23. In accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 2 of this Recommendation, migrant workers and their families should benefit from the
activities of social services and have access thereto under the same conditions as nationals of the country of employment.
24. In addition, social services should be provided which perform, in particular, the following functions in relation to migrant workers and their
families-(a) giving migrant workers and their families every assistance in adapting to the economic, social and cultural environment of the country of
employment;
(b) helping migrant workers and their families to obtain information and advice from appropriate bodies, for instance by providing
interpretation and translation services; to comply with administrative and other formalities; and to make full use of services and facilities
provided in such fields as education, vocational training and language training, health services and social security, housing, transport and
recreation: Provided that migrant workers and their families should as far as possible have the right to communicate with public authorities
in the country of employment in their own language or in a language with which they are familiar, particularly in the context of legal
assistance and court proceedings;
(c) assisting authorities and bodies with responsibilities relating to the conditions of life and work of migrant workers and their families in
identifying their needs and in adapting thereto;
(d) giving the competent authorities information and, as appropriate, advice regarding the formulation, implementation and evaluation of
social policy with respect to migrant workers;
(e) providing information for fellow workers and foremen and supervisors about the situation and the problems of migrant workers.
25.
(1) The social services referred to in Paragraph 24 of this Recommendation may be provided, as appropriate to national conditions and
practice, by public authorities, by approved non-profit-making organisations or bodies, or by a combination of both. The public authorities
should have the over-all responsibility of ensuring that these social services are at the disposal of migrant workers and their families.
(2) Full use should be made of services which are or can be provided by authorities, organisations and bodies serving the nationals of the
country of employment, including employers' and workers' organisations.
26. Each Member should take such measures as may be necessary to ensure that sufficient resources and adequately trained staff are available for
the social services referred to in Paragraph 24 of this Recommendation.
27. Each Member should promote co-operation and co-ordination between different social services on its territory and, as appropriate, between
these services and corresponding services in other countries, without, however, this co-operation and co-ordination relieving the States of their
responsibilities in this field.
28. Each Member should organise and encourage the organisation, at the national, regional or local level, or as appropriate in a branch of
economic activity employing substantial numbers of migrant workers, of periodic meetings for the exchange of information and experience.
Consideration should also be given to the exchange of information and experience with other countries of employment as well as with the
countries of origin of migrant workers.
29. Representatives of all concerned and in particular of employers and workers should be consulted on the organisation of the social services in
question and their co-operation sought in achieving the purposes aimed at.
III. Employment and Residence
30. In pursuance of the provision of Paragraph 18 of the Migration for Employment Recommendation (Revised), 1949, that Members should, as
far as possible, refrain from removing from their territory, on account of lack of means or the state of the employment market, a migrant worker