Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

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

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Part II of the Convention. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee takes note of a very brief report of the Government. The Government indicates that it has noted the suggestion of the Committee to take steps to ensure progressive abolition of subcontractors in the jute industry and the inland navigation sector. The Committee also takes note of the comments of the Bangladesh Employers' Association received in October 1991 to the effect that the Committee's suggestion to make the activities of the subcontractors in the jute industry and the inland navigation sector subject to the licensing and supervision arrangements may be gradually considered by the Government.

In this connection, the Committee would like to draw the Government's attention once again to the fact 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 during which they should be subject to supervision (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 licensing and supervision arrangements provided for in Article 5, paragraph 2, and Article 8.