No. 50 - Recruiting of Indigenous Workers, 1936 [Shelved]

Provisions

• This Convention prescribes a number of conditions that must be met if indigenous people are recruited for work for which they have not spontaneously offered their services.
• It deals with such issues as pressure by employers, protection of the political and social organisation of the peoples concerned, protection of the families of recruited workers, the licensing of recruitment agents, and the protection of the workers themselves - health, transport, repatriation, advances of wages, and so on.

Administered by

Not applicable.

How New Zealand implements it

• This Convention applies to employees in dependent territories of ILO members. It establishes a set of rules to protect the indigenous people in such territories from the harmful social, economic and other consequences of labour recruiting schemes imposed upon them.
• New Zealand's only remaining dependent territory is Tokelau, to which the Convention has not been applied.

Ratified - 8 July 1947

Total ratifications - 30