R044 - Unemployment Provision Recommendation, 1934 (No. 44)

Subject MatterSeguridad social,Social security,Sécurité sociale
CourtInternational Labour Organization
Preamble

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 Eighteenth Session on 4 June 1934, and

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to unemployment insurance and various forms of relief for the unemployed, which is the second item on the agenda of the Session, and

Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a Recommendation,

adopts this twenty-third day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred thirty-four, the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Unemployment Provision Recommendation, 1934:

The Conference,

Having adopted a Convention ensuring benefit or allowances to the involuntarily unemployed;

Considering that this Convention lays down the minimum conditions to be complied with by every scheme of unemployment insurance or assistance;

Considering that it is desirable to indicate a number of general principles which practice shows to be best calculated to promote a satisfactory organisation of unemployment insurance and assistance;

Recommends that each Member should take the following principles and rules into consideration:

  1. 1. In countries where compulsory insurance against unemployment is not in operation, steps should be taken to create such a system as soon as possible.
  2. 2. In countries in which compulsory or voluntary unemployment insurance is in operation, a complementary assistance scheme should be maintained to cover persons who have exhausted their right to benefit and in certain cases those who have not yet acquired the right to benefit; this scheme should be on a different basis from the ordinary arrangements for the relief of destitution.
  3. 3. All schemes for the payment of unemployment benefit or allowances should cover not only persons who are wholly unemployed, but also persons who are partially unemployed.
  4. 4
    • (a) Unemployment insurance and assistance schemes should be applied as soon as possible to all persons who are employed under a contract of service, and to persons employed under a contract of apprenticeship with money payment. If, however, exceptions are considered necessary, they should be confined within the narrowest possible limits.
    • (b) Such persons should be covered either by insurance or assistance until they reach the age at which they are entitled to an old-age pension.
    • (c) If...

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