Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1988, published 75th ILC session (1988)

Fee-Charging Employment Agencies Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 96) - Bangladesh (Ratification: 1972)

Part II of the Convention. The Committee takes note of the information supplied by the Goverment in reply to its previous comments.

It notes that licences granted to fee-charging employment agencies for overseas employment are renewable yearly and that the organisations of employers and workers concerned are consulted for the purpose of Article 5 of the Convention.

It further notes the statement of the Government that no international employment agency called Multinational Recruitment Group has its associates and offices in Bangladesh.

Finally, the Committee notes the Government's statement, in reply to the last question raised in the Committee's previous comments, that, in the given national conditions, the Government does not consider it necessary at this stage either to provide for progressive abolition of the operation of subcontractors or to make their activities subject to the licencing and supervision arrangements provided for in Article 5, paragraph 2, of the Convention. In this connection, the Committee would like to point out once again that the definition in Article 1(a) of the Convention covers all intermediaries who are paid for their services even when the payment is made exclusively by the employer. The Committee therefore hopes that the Government will take steps to ensure the application of the Convention in respect of subcontractors in the jute industry and the inland navigation sector, either by providing for their progressive abolition within a limited period of time and their supervision pending abolition (Articles 3 and 4 of the Convention) or, if appropriate, placing arrangements cannot for the time being be made for the categories of workers concerned within the framework of the public employment service, by making their activities subject to the licencing and supervision arrangements provided for in Article 5, paragraph 2, and Article 8.