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 Third Session on 25 October 1921, and Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the weekly rest day in industrial employment, which is included in the seventh item of the agenda of the Session, and having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention. That all necessary measrues are taken to safeguard the health of the workers and to guarantee the necessary medical care and in particular a that the workers are medically examined before commencing the work and at fixed intervals during the period of service that there is an adequate medical staff, provided with the dispensaries infirmaries, hospitals and equipment necessary to meet all requirements and that the sanitary conditions of the workplaces, the supply of drinking water,food, fuel, cooking utensils, and, where necessary, of housing and clothing, are satisfactory Forced or compulsory labour for the transport of persons or goods, such as the lab our of porters or boatmen, shall be abolished within the shortest possible period.Meanwhile the competent authority shall promulgate regulations determining,inter Alia that such labour shall only be employed for the purpose of facilitating the movement of officials of the administration, when on duty,or for the transport of Government stores, or in cases of very urgent necessity, the transport of persons other than officials, that the workers so employed medically-certified to be physically fit,where medical examination is possible, and that where such medical examination is not practicable the person employing such workers shall be held responsible for ensuring that they are physically fit and not suffering from any infectious or contagious disease, the maximum load which these workers may carry the maximum distance from their homes to which they may be take the maximum number of days per month or other period for which they may be taken including the days spent in returning to their homes, and the persons entitled to demand this form of forced or compulsory labour and the extent to which they are entitled to demand it. The illegal exaction of forced or compulsory labour shall be punishable as a penal offense,and it shall be an obligation on any Member ratifying this Convention to ensure that the penalties imposed by law are really adequate and are strictly enforced. Having decided to adopt,in the form of a Convention, certain proposals concerning freedom of association and protection of the right to organist which is the seventh item on the agenda of the session; Workers and employers without distinction whatsoever,shall have the right, having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international 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 pa graph, exercise the right of denunciation provided for in this Article,will be bound for another period of ten years and,thereafter, may denounce this Convention at the expiration of each period of ten years under the terms provided for in this Article.
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Publisher:
ILO, UNIC
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Type / Script:
Official Document
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Keywords:
RIGHT TO PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY AND FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION, WOMEN PARTICIPATION, METHODOLOGY, ANTI-RETROVIRAL THERAPY, CIVIC ANGAGEMANT AND PARTICIPATION, CHILD SOLDIER, EDUCATION AND SKILLS, DEVLOPMENT, STANDARDS, INTERNATIONAL LABOUR LEGISLATION, WORKING CONDITIONS, HUMANITARIAN STANDARDS
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Thematic Group:
ILO
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International Labor & Labor
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Thesaurus:
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- Employment Promotion And Planning
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