On the accession of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the 1964 Convention on Employment Policy

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The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated November 9, 1998 No. 286-1

The Republic of Kazakhstan should accede to the 1964 Convention on Employment Policy, adopted in Geneva on July 9, 1964.

President N. Nazarbayev of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Convention 122

 Convention on Employment Policy

The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, convened in Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office and meeting on 17 June 1964 for its forty-eighth session, Bearing in mind that the Philadelphia Declaration recognizes the solemn commitment of the International Labour Organization to promote worldwide programmes aimed at achieving full employment and improving living standards, and that in the Preamble to The Charter of the International Labour Organization provides for combating unemployment and guaranteeing wages, ensuring satisfactory living conditions, Bearing in mind further that, by virtue of the Philadelphia Declaration, it is the responsibility of the International Labour Organization to study and consider the impact of economic and financial aspects of politics on employment policy in the light of the fundamental objective proclaimed in this declaration that "all people, regardless of race, faith or gender, have the right to the realization of one's material well-being and spiritual development in conditions of freedom and dignity, economic stability and equal opportunities," taking into account, That the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides that "everyone has the right to work, to free choice of work, to just and favourable working conditions and to protection from unemployment," taking into account existing international labour conventions and recommendations directly related to employment policy, and in particular the 1948 Convention and Recommendation about employment services; The 1949 Recommendation on Vocational Guidance, the 1962 Recommendation on Vocational Training, and the 1958 Convention and Recommendation on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation, Bearing in mind that these instruments should be included in the broader framework of an international program for economic development based on full, productive and freely chosen employment, deciding to adopt a number of proposals, related to employment policy, which is part of the eighth agenda item of the session, having decided to give these proposals the form of a convention, Adopts on this ninth day of July of the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four the following Convention, which will be called the 1964 Convention on Employment Policy:

Article 1

1. In order to stimulate economic growth and development, improve living standards, meet labor needs, and eliminate unemployment and underemployment, each Member of the Organization proclaims and implements as its main goal an active policy aimed at promoting full, productive, and freely chosen employment. 2. This policy aims to ensure that: a) there is work for everyone who is ready to start work and is looking for work; b) such work is as productive as possible.; (c) There was freedom of choice of employment and the widest opportunities for every worker to receive training and use their skills and abilities to perform the work for which they are suitable, regardless of race, skin color, gender, religion, political views, foreign origin or social origin. 3. This policy takes due account of the stage and level of economic development and the relationship between employment goals and other economic and social goals, and it is implemented using methods appropriate to national circumstances and practices.

Article 2

Using methods appropriate to national conditions and to the extent these conditions permit, each Member of the Organization: (a) determines and periodically reviews, within the framework of coordinating economic and social policy, the measures to be taken to achieve the objectives set out in Article 1; (b) takes such steps as may be necessary. to implement these measures, including, where appropriate, the development of programmes.

Article 3

In the application of this Convention, representatives of the circles interested in the proposed measures, in particular representatives of entrepreneurs and workers, shall be consulted on employment policies in order to fully take into account their experience and opinions and to obtain their full cooperation in the formulation and support of such policies.

Article 4

The official instruments of ratification of this Convention shall be sent to the Director General of the International Labour Office for registration.

Article 5

1. This Convention binds only those Members of the International Labour Organization whose instruments of ratification have been registered by the Director General. 2. It comes into force 12 months after the Director General registers the instruments of ratification of the two Members of the Organization. 3. Subsequently, this Convention shall enter into force for each Member of the Organization twelve months after the date of registration of its instrument of ratification.

Article 6

1. Any Member which has ratified this Convention may, after a period of ten years from the date of its initial entry into force, denounce it by means of an act of denunciation addressed to and registered by the Director-General of the International Labour Office. The denunciation takes effect one year after the registration of the act of denunciation. 2. Each Member of the Organization that has ratified this Convention, which does not exercise its right of denunciation provided for in this article within one year after the expiration of the ten-year period referred to in the preceding paragraph, shall be bound for a further period of ten years and may subsequently denounce this Convention after the expiration of each ten-year period in accordance with the procedure established in this article.

Article 7

1. The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall notify all Members of the International Labour Organization of the registration of all instruments of ratification and denunciation received by him from the Members of the Organization. 2. In notifying the Members of the Organization of the registration of the second instrument of ratification received by him, the Director-General shall draw their attention to the date of entry into force of this Convention.

Article 8

The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall transmit to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, for registration in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations, full details of the ratifications and denunciations registered by him in accordance with the provisions of the preceding articles.

Article 9

Whenever the Governing Body of the International Labour Office considers it necessary, it shall submit to the General Conference a report on the application of this Convention and decide whether to include in the agenda of the Conference the question of its revision in whole or in part.

Article 10

1. In the event that the Conference adopts a new convention revising this Convention in whole or in part, and unless the new convention provides otherwise, then: (a) The ratification by any Member of the new revising Convention shall automatically entail, regardless of the provisions of Article 6, the immediate denunciation of this Convention, provided that the new revising Convention the Convention has entered into force; b) starting from the date of entry into force of the new, revising convention, this Convention is closed for ratification by the Members of the Organization. 2. In any case, this Convention remains in force in form and content in respect of those Members of the Organization that have ratified it but have not ratified the new, revising convention.

Article 11

The English and French texts of this Convention are equally authentic.

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