C142 Convention concerning Vocational Guidance
and Vocational Training in the Development of Human Resources, 1975 (Note: Date
of coming into force: 19:07:1977.)
Convention: C142
Place: Geneva
Session of the Conference:60
Date of adoption:23:06:1975 See the ratifications for this Convention
The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour
Office, and having met in its Sixtieth Session on 4 June 1970, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to human resources
development: vocational guidance and vocational training, which is the sixth item on the
agenda of the session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international
Convention,
adopts the twenty-third day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and
seventy-five, the following Convention, which may be cited as the Human Resources
Development Convention, 1975:
Article 1
Each Member shall adopt and develop comprehensive and co-ordinated policies and
programmes of vocational guidance and vocational training, closely linked with employment,
in particular through public employment services.
These policies and programmes shall take due account of
:
employment needs, opportunities and problems, both regional and national;
the stage and level of economic, social and cultural development; and
the mutual relationships between human resources development and other economic,
social and cultural objectives.
The policies and programmes shall be pursued by methods that are appropriate to
national conditions.
The policies and programmes shall be designed to improve the ability of the
individual to understand and, individually or collectively, to influence the working and
social environment.
The policies and programmes shall encourage and enable all persons, on an equal
basis and without any discrimination whatsoever, to develop and use their capabilities for
work in their own best interests and in accordance with their own aspirations, account
being taken of the needs of society.
Article 2
With the above ends in view, each Member shall establish and develop open, flexible and
complementary systems of general, technical and vocational education, educational and
vocational guidance and vocational training, whether these activities take place within
the system of formal education or outside it.
Article 3
Each Member shall gradually extend its systems of vocational guidance, including
continuing employment information, with a view to ensuring that comprehensive information
and the broadest possible guidance are available to all children, young persons and
adults, including appropriate programmes for all handicapped and disabled persons.
Such information and guidance shall cover the choice of an occupation, vocational
training and related educational opportunities, the employment situation and employment
prospects, promotion prospects, conditions of work, safety and hygiene at work, and other
aspects of working life in the various sectors of economic, social and cultural activity
and at all levels of responsibility.
The information and guidance shall be supplemented by information on general aspects
of collective agreements and of the rights and obligations of all concerned under labour
law; this information shall be provided in accordance with national law and practice,
taking into account the respective functions and tasks of the workers' and employers'
organisations concerned.
Article 4
Each Member shall gradually extend, adapt and harmonise its vocational training systems
to meet the needs for vocational training throughout life of both young persons and adults
in all sectors of the economy and branches of economic activity and at all levels of skill
and responsibility.
Article 5
Policies and programmes of vocational guidance and vocational training shall be
formulated and implemented in co-operation with employers' and workers' organisations and,
as appropriate and in accordance with national law and practice, with other interested
bodies.
Article 6
The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the
Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.
Article 7
This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the International Labour
Organisation whose ratifications have been registered with the Director-General.
It shall come into force twelve months after the date on which the ratifications of
two Members have been registered with the Director-General.
Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any Member twelve months after
the date on which its ratifications has been registered.
Article 8
A Member which has ratified this Convention may denounce it after the expiration of
ten years from the date on which the Convention first comes into force, by an Act
communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.
Such denunciation should not take effect until one year after the date on which it is
registered.
Each Member which has ratified this Convention and which does not, within the year
following the expiration of the period of ten years mentioned in the preceding paragraph,
exercise the right of denunciation provided for in this Article, will be bound for another
period of ten years and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention at the expiration of
each period of ten years under the terms provided for in this Article.
Article 9
The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall notify all Members of
the International Labour Organisation of the registration of all ratifications and
denunciations communicated to him by the Members of the Organisation.
When notifying the Members of the Organisation of the registration of the second
ratification communicated to him, the Director-General shall draw the attention of the
Members of the Organisation to the date upon which the Convention will come into force.
Article 10
The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall communicate to the
Secretary-General of the United Nations for registration in accordance with Article 102 of
the Charter of the United Nations full particulars of all ratifications and acts of
denunciation registered by him in accordance with the provisions of the preceding
Articles.
Article 11
At such times as may consider necessary the Governing Body of the International Labour
Office shall present to the General Conference a report on the working of this Convention
and shall examine the desirability of placing on the agenda of the Conference the question
of its revision in whole or in part.
Article 12
Should the Conference adopt a new Convention revising this Convention in whole or in
part, then, unless the new Convention otherwise provides:
the ratification by a Member of the new revising Convention shall ipso jure involve
the immediate denunciation of this Convention, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 8
above, if and when the new revising Convention shall have come into force;
as from the date when the new revising Convention comes into force this Convention
shall cease to be open to ratification by the Members.
This Convention shall in any case remain in force in its actual form and content for
those Members which have ratified it but have not ratified the revising Convention.
Article 13
The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are equally
authoritative.
