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Purpose and legislative effect
“This text says the Convention is adopted and may be cited as the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997.”
This text says the Convention is adopted and may be cited as the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997. This article defines key terms, including private employment agency, workers, and processing of workers’ personal data, and states that workers are not to be denied freedom of association or collective bargaining rights. This article says the Convention applies to private employment agencies, but not to seafarer recruitment and placement, and lets a Member limit or exclude coverage in specific situations after consulting employers’ and workers’ organizations. A Member must set the legal status and operating conditions for private employment agencies, using national law and practice and consulting representative employers’ and workers’ organizations. Workers recruited by private employment agencies must not be prevented from joining trade unions or taking part in collective bargaining.
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This text says the Convention is adopted and may be cited as the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997.
Section ingingo ya kane
Private employment agencies must process workers’ personal data in a way that protects privacy and must keep it limited to qualifications, professional experience, and other directly relevant information.
Section 6
Each Member must take necessary measures, under its national law and practice, to protect workers employed by private employment agencies.
Section 11
Formal ratifications of the Convention must be communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.
Section 17
The English and French versions of the Convention are equally authoritative.
Section 24
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Source record from www.amategeko.gov.rw · updated 29 Jan 2018
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