Migration for Employment
Migration for Employment : ILO Convention No. 97 (1949) (revised) concerns assistance, information,protection and equality of treatment for migrant workers. The Convention applies to migrants for employment. It has various provisions aimed atregulating the conditions under which the migration of persons for employment shall take place and ensuring equality of treatment for migrant workers in certain respects. First, the Convention contains a series of provisions concerning migration for employment, notably on the information that ILO Member States shall make available to one another and on the establishment of free services to assist and inform migrants for employment. As far as possible, States shall take steps against misleading propaganda relating to emigration and immigration, and cooperate to this end with other countries concerned. Appropriate measures shall be taken to facilitate the departure, journey and reception of migrants for employment. The Convention also provides for the establishment of medical mservices for migrants for employment and the members of their families. A second series of provisions deals with equality of treatment. These comprise, for Member States ratifying the Convention, the obligation to apply, without discrimination in respect of nationality, race, religion or sex, to immigrants lawfully within their territory, treatment no less favourable than that which they apply to their own nationals in respect of certain matters. The Convention also has provisions regarding cooperation between employment services and other services connected with migration, and the free rendering of public employment services to migrants. It prohibits that a migrant for employment who has been admitted on a permanent basis, and the members of his/her family who have been authorized to accompany or join the migrant, be returned to their territory of origin because the migrant is unable to follow his/her occupation by reason of illness contracted or injury sustained subsequent to entry. States bound by the Convention undertake to permit, taking into account the limits allowed by national laws and regulations concerning the export and import of currency, the transfer of such part of the earnings and savings of the migrant as the migrant may desire. See: Migrant workers (supplementary provisions)
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