Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

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

1. Part II. Progressive abolition of fee-charging employment agencies conducted with a view to profit and regulation of other agencies. The Committee notes the Government’s reply in relation to the workers’ recruitment in private jute industries and the inland waterways sector of Bangladesh. The Government states that there is no employment agency through which workers can search for jobs in these sectors. The Committee would appreciate receiving, in the Government’s next report, a general assessment of the manner in which the Convention is applied, including, for instance, extracts from official reports, information regarding the number and nature of the contraventions reported and any other particulars bearing on the practical application of the Convention (Part V of the report form).

2. Revision of Convention No. 96. The Committee recalls that the ILO Governing Body invites the States parties to Convention No. 96 to contemplate ratifying, as appropriate, the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181), which will ipso jure involve the immediate denunciation of Convention No. 96 (document GB.273/LILS/4(Rev.1), 273rd Session, Geneva, November 1998). The Committee also invites the Government to keep it informed of any developments which, in consultation with the social partners, might occur in this regard.