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Chapter 12 ILO Convention No. 122 Concerning Employment Policy (excerpts) Article 1 1. With a view to stimulating economic growth and development, raising levels of living , meeting manpower requirements and overcoming unemployment and underemployment , each Member shall declare and pursue, as a major goal, an active policy designed to promote full, productive and freely chosen employment. 2. The said policy shall aim at ensuring that: (a) There is work for all who are available for and seeking work; (b) Such work is as productive as possible; (c) There is freedom of choice of employment and the fullest possible opportunity for each worker to qualify for, and to use his skills and endowments in, a job for which he is well suited, irrespective of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin. 3. The said policy shall take due account of the stage and level of economic development and the mutual relationships between employment objectives and other economic and social objectives, and shall be pursued by methods that are appropriate to national conditions and practices. Article 2 Each Member shall, by such methods and to such extent as may be appropriate under national conditions: (a) Decide on and keep under review, within the framework of a coordinated economic and social policy, the measures to be adopted for attaining the objectives speciWed in Article l; Adopted 9 July 1964 by the General Conference of the International Labour Organisation, entry into force 15 July 1966, in accordance with Article 5. (b) Take such steps as may be needed, including when appropriate the establishment of programmes, for the application of these measures. Article 3 In the application of this Convention, representatives of the persons affected by the measures to be taken, and in particular representatives of employers and workers, shall be consulted concerning employment policies, with a view to taking fully into account their experience and views and securing their full co-operation in formulating and enlisting support for such policies. . . . ILO Convention, Employment Policy 141 ...

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