R62 Migration for Employment (Co-operation between States)
Recommendation, 1939
Recommendation concerning Co-operation between States relating to the Recruitment, Placing and Conditions of Labour of
Migrants for Employment
Recommendation:R62
Place:Geneva
Session of the Conference:25
Date of adoption=28:06:1939
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 Twenty-fifth Session on 8 June 1939, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to cooperation between States relating to the recruiting, placing and conditions of
labour of migrants for employment, which is included in the third item on the
agenda of the Session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a
Recommendation,
adopts this twenty-eight day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and
thirty-nine, the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Migration
for Employment (Co-operation between States) Recommendation, 1939:
The Conference,
Having adopted the Migration for Employment Convention 1939, and the
Migration for Employment Recommendation, 1939:
Recommends as follows:
1. Members between which the volume of migration is fairly considerable, or
between which collective migration takes place, should supplement the
measures which they take to ensure the application of the provisions of the
Migration for Employment Convention, 1939, and the Migration for Employment
Recommendation, 1939, by concluding bilateral or plurilateral agreements which
might usefully deal, according to circumstances, with the following questions: (a)
the supply of information to migrants for employment and the exchange of
information between the competent Government departments;
(b) the repression of illegal and misleading propaganda;
(c) the issue of certificates and identification papers required by migrants for
employment and the recognition in the territory of each of the contracting parties
of the validity of such documents and of contracts of employment issued or
concluded in the territory of another party;
(d) the methods of recruitment, introduction and placing of migrants for
employment;
(e) the methods of preventing the separation of families or the desertion of their
families by migrants for employment, of facilitating the reunion of families and of
securing that the migrant will carry out any legal obligations which he may have
towards dependants in the country of origin;
(f) any measures which may be necessary to enable migrants for employment to
take the money they require out of the country of emigration and to transfer their
savings to the country of origin, and the adoption of the most favourable
exchange rate for such money and savings;
(g) the repatriation of migrants for employment and their families and the method
of covering the cost thereof;
(h) the guarantees subject to which the nationals of one of the contracting States
residing in the territory of another may be recruited for undertakings situated in
non-metropolitan territories under the administration of the latter;
(i) the settlement of pension rights of migrants for employment under old-age,
invalidity and survivors' insurance schemes if the maintenance of such rights is
not otherwise provided for as between the States concerned.
2. Apart from or in addition to the agreements referred to in the preceding
Paragraph, Members should co-operate in the practical solution of problems
concerning the recruitment, placing and conditions of labour of migrants for
employment, more particularly by such of the following methods as may be
appropriate in the circumstances:
(a) the drafting of standard forms of application and contract for the recruitment
and introduction of migrants for employment;
(b) the determination and revision of the quotas of nationals of one country who
may be introduced into the territory of another during a year or season, and, if
necessary, their distribution by sex, age and occupation;
(c) agreement on a procedure of co-operation with a view to the recruitment and
the protection of the interests of migrants for employment;
(d) periodical meetings of a joint committee of the country of emigration and the
country of immigration for the application or adaptation of proposals or measures
for the recruitment, introduction, placing, employment, protection, and, where the
case arises, repatriation of migrants for employment and their families.