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CONVENTION (NO. 168) CONCERNING EMPLOYMENT PROMOTION AND PROTECTION AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT

Adopted on 21 June 1988 by the General Conference of the International Labour Organisation at its seventy-fifth session, entry into force 17 October 1991, in accordance with Article 33

I. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 6

1. Each Member shall ensure equality of treatment for all persons protected, without discrimination on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction, nationality, ethnic or social origin, disability or age.

II. PROMOTION OF PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYMENT

Article 8

1. Each Member shall endeavour to establish, subject to national law and practice, special programmes to promote additional job opportunities and employment assistance and to encourage freely chosen and productive employment for identified categories of disadvantaged persons having or liable to have difficulties in finding lasting employment such as women, young workers, disabled persons, older workers, the long-term unemployed, migrant workers lawfully resident in the country and workers affected by structural change.