COORDINADORA DE SINDICATOS BANANEROS Y AGROINDUSTRIALES DE HONDURAS

a) be of good mechanical construction, be made of solid materials, and adequate strength and free from patent defect;

b) be kept in good maintenance and operation.

2. Every rope used in hoisting or lowering materials or as means of suspension shall be of good quality and adequate strength and free from patent defect.

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1. Machinery and lifting devices must be properly examined and tested after assembly and in the pit before use and must be reviewed periodically in their locations as often as prescribed by national legislation.

2. Should be reviewed periodically rings, chains, hook, shackle, swivel and pulley block used in hoisting or lowering materials or as means of suspension.

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1. Every crane driver or other lifting device shall be properly qualified to carry out his work.

2. May not be employing people who have not reached the minimum age set by domestic law hoisting machine including any scaffold winch or give signals to the driver.

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1. Shall determine, by appropriate means, the load of lifting, chains, rings, hooks, sleeves, pulleys and swivels used in hoisting or lowering materials or as means of suspension.

2. Every hoisting machine and all gear referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be marked in a visible, working load.

3. In the case of a hoisting machine having a variable safe working load, each load shall be clearly useful and the circumstances in which it is admissible.

4. No part of a lifting or any of the appliances mentioned in paragraph 1 of this article, be loaded with a weight in excess of its load, except in the cases tested.

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1. The motors, gears, transmissions, electric wiring and other dangerous parts of hoisting appliances shall be provided with effective protection.

2. Hoisting appliances shall be provided with appropriate means to minimize the risk of accidental descent of load.

3. Take appropriate precautions to minimize the risk of accidental displacement of any part of a suspended load.

Part IV. General Provisions Relating to Protective Equipment and First Aid

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1. All necessary personal safety equipment must be accessible to persons employed at the site and be maintained in a condition suitable for immediate use.

2. Employees are required to operate the equipment made available and the employer shall ensure that interested parties make a prudent use of the same.

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When the work undertaken in the vicinity of any place where danger of drowning, you must provide all equipment necessary under conditions that allow its use at any time and must take the necessary steps for the speedy rescue of anyone in danger .

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Appropriate measures be taken for prompt first aid to any person injured at work.

Convention Medical Examination of Young Persons (Non-Industrial), 1946 (No. 78)

Part I. General Provisions

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1. This Convention applies to children in non-industrial employees for wages or profit directly or indirectly.

2. For the purposes of this Convention, the term non-industrial occupations includes all occupations other than those recognized by the competent authorities and industrial, agricultural and maritime.

3. The competent authority shall determine the demarcation line between the industrial work, on the one hand, and the industrial, agricultural and marine, on the other.

4. National law may exempt from the application of this Convention employment in jobs not considered dangerous to the health of children, carried out in family businesses in which only employees are parents and their children.

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1. Persons under eighteen years shall not be admitted to employment or work in non-industrial occupations, except that after a thorough medical examination were declared fit for work.

2. The medical examination for fitness for employment shall be performed by a qualified physician, approved by the competent authority and must be certified by a medical certificate or a record registered in the employment permit or the work book.

3. The document certifying fitness for employment may be:

a) subject to specified conditions of employment;

b) issued for a specific job or for a group of jobs or occupations involving similar risks to health and which have been classified into a group by the authority responsible for enforcing legislation relating to medical examination for fitness for employment.

4. National law shall determine the competent authority to issue the document certifying fitness for employment and shall define the conditions to be observed in drawing up and delivery.

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1. The ability of minors to the job he is engaged shall be subject to medical supervision until the age of eighteen.

2. The continued employment of a person under eighteen years of age shall be subject to medical re-examinations at intervals not exceeding one year.

3. National legislation must:

a) the special circumstances in which, in addition to the annual review, the medical examination should be repeated or carried out more frequently to ensure effective supervision in relation to the hazards inherent in the work and state of health lower as it has been revealed by previous reviews, or

b) empower the competent authority to require medical re-examinations in exceptional cases.

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1. In occupations which involve high health risks, shall be required medical examination for fitness for employment and re-up to the age of twenty-one years at least.

2. National law shall determine the categories of work or work that require a medical examination for fitness until the age of twenty-one years of age, or shall empower an appropriate authority to determine that.

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The medical examinations required by the preceding articles shall not entail any expense to children or parents.

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1. The competent authority shall issue appropriate measures for the vocational guidance and vocational and physical rehabilitation of children whose medical examination has revealed an inability to certain types of work disabilities or limitations.

2. The competent authority shall determine the nature and scope of these measures, these effects could be a collaboration between the departments of labor, medical services, education services and social services must be maintained effective liaison between these services to these measures into practice.

3. National legislation may provide that for children whose fitness for employment is not clearly known to them:

a) work permits or temporary medical certificates valid for a limited period at the expiration of which the young worker must undergo a re-examination;

b) permits or certificates requiring special conditions of employment.

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1. The employer must file and make available to the inspectors, the medical certificate of fitness for employment or work permit or work book, proving that there is no objection to the employment medical in accordance with the prescribed national legislation.

2. The law determines:

a) the identification measures to be taken to ensure the implementation of the system of medical fitness examinations for children involved, by itself or on behalf of their parents, peddling or any other work carried out in public or in a public place and

b) other methods of monitoring to be taken to ensure the strict implementation of this Convention.

Part II. Special Provisions for Certain Countries

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1. When the territory of a Member includes large areas where, because of the sparseness of the population or the stage of economic development, the competent authority considers it impracticable to enforce the provisions of this Convention, the authority may exempt such areas from the application of the Convention, either generally or with such exceptions as it deems appropriate in respect of particular undertakings or occupations.

2. Each Member shall indicate in the first annual report on the implementation of this Convention, to be submitted under article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labor Organization, the entire region in which it proposes to invoke the provisions of this Article. No Member may subsequently invoke the provisions of this Article, except with respect to the regions so indicated.

3. Any Member invoking the provisions of this Article shall indicate in subsequent annual reports, the regions for which renounces the right to invoke those provisions.

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1. Any Member who prior to the date on which it has adopted legislation enabling the ratification of this Convention as it has no legislation on the medical examination for fitness for employment of minors in non-industrial occupations may, by a declaration accompanying its ratification, substitute the age of eighteen years prescribed in Articles 2 and 3, an age of eighteen, but in no case less than sixteen, and the age of twenty-one years as prescribed by Article 4, an age twenty-one years, but in no case less than nineteen.

2. Each Member which has made such a declaration may at any time by a subsequent declaration.

3. Each Member for which is in force a declaration made in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article shall indicate in subsequent annual reports on the implementation of this Convention, the extent of any progress made towards the full implementation of the provisions of Convention.

Convention on the inspection of work, 1947 (No. 81)

Part I. Labor Inspection in Industry

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Any member of the International Labor Organization which is in force this Convention shall maintain a system of inspection of work in industrial establishments.

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1. The system of inspection of work in industrial establishments shall apply to all establishments to which labor inspectors are responsible for enforcing the laws relating to working conditions and worker protection in the exercise of their profession.

2. National law may exempt from the application of this Convention to the mining and transport undertakings or parts of these companies.

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1. The inspection system shall:

a) enforcement of laws relating to working conditions and protect workers in exercising their profession, such as provisions on working hours, wages, safety, health and welfare, employment of minors and other provisions related to the extent that labor inspectors are responsible for enforcing these provisions;

b) provide technical information and advice to employers and workers concerning the most effective way to comply with laws;

c) to inform the competent authority defects or abuses not specifically covered by existing legal provisions.

2. Any other function entrusted to the labor inspectors shall impede the effective performance of its functions or harm in any way the authority and impartiality which are necessary to inspectors in their relations with employers and workers.

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1. When compatible with the administrative practice of the Member, the inspection shall be under the supervision and control of a central authority.

2. In the case of a federal state, the term central authority may mean either a federal authority or a central authority of a confederal entity.

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The competent authority shall take appropriate measures to encourage:

a) effective cooperation for inspection services with other government departments and institutions, public or private, engaged in similar activities;

b) collaboration between officials of the inspectorate and employers and workers or their organizations.

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The inspection staff shall be composed of public officials whose status and conditions of service will ensure stability in their employment and independent of changes of government and of improper external influences.

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1. Subject to the conditions to which national laws hold the hiring of public officials, labor inspectors shall be recruited with sole regard to qualifications for the performance of their duties.

2. The competent authority shall determine the manner of ascertaining such qualifications.

3. Labor inspectors shall be adequately trained to perform their functions.

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Men and women are equally eligible for appointment to the inspection staff and, where necessary, special duties may be assigned to the inspectors and inspectors, respectively.

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Each Member shall take the necessary measures to ensure the cooperation of qualified experts and technicians, including specialists in medicine, engineering, electricity and chemicals, the inspection service in accordance with methods deemed most appropriate to the conditions national, to ensure compliance with the laws concerning the protection of health and safety of employees in the exercise of their profession, and to investigate the effects of processes, materials and methods of work on health and safety.

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The number of labor inspectors shall be sufficient to ensure the effective discharge of the duties of the inspectorate and shall be determined taking into account:

a) the important role that the inspectors have to perform, including:

1) the number, nature, size and location of establishments subject to inspection;

2) the number and categories of employees in such establishments;

3) the number and complexity of the laws to be enforced;

b) the material means available to inspectors and

c) the practical conditions that must be carried out inspection visits to be effective.

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1. The competent authority shall take the necessary steps to provide the inspectors:

a) local offices, suitably equipped in accordance with the requirements of the service, and accessible to all interested persons;

b) means of transport for the performance of their duties, where no suitable public facilities.

2. The competent authority shall take the necessary steps to reimburse inspectors any traveling and incidental expenses which may be necessary for the performance of their duties.

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1. The inspectors provided with proper credentials shall be empowered:

a) to enter freely and without prior notice at any time of day or night any workplace subject to inspection;

b) to enter the day in any place, where they have reasonable cause to believe to be subject to inspection and

c) to carry out any examination, test or inquiry which they deem necessary to ensure that the laws are strictly observed, and in particular:

i) to interrogate, alone or before witnesses, the employer or the personnel of the company on any matter concerning the application of laws;

ii) to require the production of books, records or other documents that the national legislation concerning the conditions of work, to see that they are in accordance with the laws, and to obtain copies or extracts thereof;

iii) to enforce the posting of notices required by laws;

iv) to take or remove samples of materials and substances used or handled in the establishment for the purpose of analysis, provided they notify the employer or his representative that the materials or substances taken or removed for such purpose.

2. When conducting an inspection, the inspector should report their presence to the employer or his representative, unless it finds that such notification may be prejudicial to the performance of their duties.

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1. The inspectors are empowered to take action to eliminate the defects observed in plant, layout or working methods which they may reasonably constitute a threat to health or safety.

2. To enable the adoption of such measures, the inspectors shall be entitled, subject to any judicial or administrative authority which may be provided by law, to order or make to order:

a) changes in the facility within a specified period, as may be necessary to ensure compliance with the laws relating to the health or safety, or

b) the adoption of measures for immediate implementation, in case of imminent danger to health or safety.

3. Where the procedure prescribed in paragraph 2 is not compatible with the administrative or judicial practice of the Member, inspectors shall have the right to apply to the competent authority for orders or for take measures for immediate implementation.

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Be reported to the labor inspectorate in cases and in the manner determined by national legislation, industrial accidents and occupational diseases.

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Subject to the exceptions set by the national legislation:

a) shall be prohibited inspectors have any direct or indirect interest in the enterprises under their supervision;

b) shall be bound on pain of penalty or disciplinary action appropriate not to reveal, even after leaving the service, manufacturing or commercial secrets or working processes which may have had knowledge at the performance of their duties;

c) the inspectors shall treat as confidential the source of any complaint bringing to their notice a defect or a breach of the laws, and not manifest to the employer or his representative that a visit was made in the receipt of such complaint.

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Establishments will be inspected as often and as thoroughly as is necessary to ensure the effective implementation of relevant legislation.

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1. Persons who violate the laws which are enforceable by inspectors, or those who neglect to observe the same shall be submitted immediately, without notice, a judicial proceeding. However, national legislation may provide exceptions for cases to be given a notice to remedy the situation and preventive measures.

2. Labor inspectors have the discretion to give warning and advice instead of instituting or recommending proceedings.

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National law shall prescribe appropriate penalties, to be effectively applied in cases of violation of laws which are enforceable by inspectors, and those that obstruct the inspectors in carrying out its functions .

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1. Labor inspectors or local inspection offices, as appropriate, shall be required to submit to central authority inspection reports on the results of their activities.

2. These reports shall be in such form as the central authority, processed materials that it deems relevant authority and shall be at least as often as determined by the central authority and in any case at intervals not exceeding one years.

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1. The central inspection authority shall publish an annual report, in general, the work of inspection services under their control.

2. These reports will be published within a reasonable time, in no case exceed twelve months from the end of the year to which they relate.

3. Be sent copies of annual reports to the Director General of the International Labor Office within a reasonable period after its publication and in no case exceed three months.

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The annual report published by the central inspection authority shall deal with the following issues and any others for which the said authority:

a) legislation relevant to the duties of the inspection;

b) staff of the labor inspection service;

c) statistics of workplaces liable to inspection and the number of workers employed therein;

d) statistics of inspection visits;

e) statistics of violations and penalties imposed;

f) statistics of occupational accidents;

g) statistics of occupational diseases.

Part II. Labor Inspection in Commerce

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Any member of the International Labor Organization which is in force this Convention shall maintain a system of inspection of work in commercial establishments.

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The system of inspection of work in commercial establishments shall apply to all establishments to which labor inspectors are responsible for enforcing the laws relating to working conditions and worker protection in the exercise of their profession.

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The system of inspection of work in commercial establishments comply with the requirements of Articles 3 to 21 of this Convention in cases that may apply.

Part III. Miscellaneous

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1. A Member of the International Labor Organization which ratifies this Convention may, by a declaration accompanying its ratification, exclude Part II from its acceptance of the Convention.

2. Each Member which has made such a declaration may withdraw it at any time by a subsequent declaration.

3. Each Member for which is in force a declaration made in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article shall indicate in subsequent annual reports on the implementation of this Convention, the status of its legislation and practice with regard to the provisions of Part II of this Convention, and the extent to which the Convention or proposes to implement these provisions.

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In cases where there are doubts about whether the Convention is applicable to an establishment or a part or service of an establishment, the matter shall be settled by the competent authority.

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In this Convention the term legal provisions includes, in addition to legislation, awards and collective agreements to which it gives force of law and which are enforceable by inspectors.

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The annual reports to be submitted under article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labor Organization all information about the legislation giving effect to the provisions of this Convention.

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2. Each Member shall indicate in the first annual report on the implementation of this Convention, to be submitted under article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labor Organization, the entire region in which it proposes to invoke the provisions of this Article and shall state the reasons that lead to benefit from these provisions. No Member may subsequently invoke the provisions of this Article, except with respect to the regions so indicated.

3. Any Member invoking the provisions of this Article shall indicate in subsequent annual reports, the regions for which renounces the right to invoke those provisions.

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1. Respect of the territories mentioned in Article 35 of the Constitution of the International Labor Organization as amended by the Instrument of Amendment to the Constitution of the International Labor Organization, 1946, other than the territories referred to in paragraphs 4 and 5 this article as so amended, each Member of the Organization which ratifies this Convention shall communicate to the Director General of the International Labor Office, as soon as possible after its ratification a declaration stating:

a) the territories to which it undertakes that the provisions of the Convention shall be applied without modification;

b) the territories to which it undertakes that the provisions of the Convention shall be applied subject to modifications, together with details of such changes;

c) the territories to which the Convention is inapplicable and the reasons why it is inapplicable;

d) the territories to which it reserves its decision.

2. The obligations referred to in paragraphs a) and b) of paragraph 1 of this Article shall be considered an integral part of the ratification and shall.

3. Any Member may waive, in whole or in part, by a declaration, any reservation made in his first statement under paragraphs b), c) or d) of paragraph 1 of this article.

4. During periods in which this Agreement may be terminated in accordance with Article 34, a Member may notify the Director General a declaration modifying in any other respect the terms of any former declaration and stating the the situation in certain areas.

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1. Where the subject matter of this Convention is within the jurisdiction of the courts of a non-metropolitan territory, the Member responsible for international relations of that territory, according to the government of the territory, may communicate to the Director General of the International Working a declaration accepting on behalf of the territory, the obligations of this Convention.

2. May be communicated to the Director General of the International Labor Office a declaration accepting the obligations of this Convention:

a) two or more Members of the Organization in respect of any territory under their joint authority or

b) any international authority responsible for the administration of any territory under the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations or otherwise, in respect of that territory.

3. Declarations communicated to the Director General of the International Labor Office, in accordance with the preceding paragraphs of this Article shall indicate whether the provisions of the Convention will be applied in the territory concerned with or without modification, when the declaration indicates that the provisions of Convention shall be applied subject to modifications it shall give the said modifications.

4. The Member, Members or international authority concerned may waive, in whole or in part, by a subsequent declaration of the right to invoke a modification indicated in any former declaration.

5. During periods in which this Agreement may be terminated in accordance with Article 34, Member, Members or international authority concerned may notify the Director General a declaration modifying in any other respect the terms of any in the previous statement and indicated that the situation in regard to the implementation of the Convention.

Convention concerning Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize, 1948 (No. 87)

Part I. Freedom

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Any member of the International Labor Organization which is in force this Convention undertakes to implement the following provisions.

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Workers and employers, without distinction whatsoever, shall have the right to establish organizations of their choosing, and to join these organizations, subject only to the rules of the same.

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1. Workers and employers have the right to draw up their constitutions and rules, to freely choose their representatives, to organize their administration and activities and to formulate their programs.

2. The public authorities shall refrain from any interference which would restrict this right or impede the lawful exercise thereof.

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Workers and employers are not subject to dissolution or suspension by administrative authority.

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Workers and employers have the right to establish federations and confederations and to join them, and any organization, federation or confederation shall have the right to join international organizations of workers and employers.

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Articles 2, 3 and 4 hereof apply to federations and confederations of workers and employers.

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The acquisition of legal personality by workers' and employers' federations and confederations shall not be made conditional nature of which restrict the application of the provisions of Articles 2, 3 and 4 hereof.

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1. In exercising the rights provided for in this Convention workers and employers and their respective organizations, like other persons or organized collectivities, shall respect the law.

2. National legislation does not affect or be so applied as to impair, the guarantees provided for in this Convention.

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1. National law shall determine to what extent they apply to the armed forces and the police security provided by this Convention.

2. In accordance with the principles set out in paragraph 8 of Article 19 of the constitution of the International Labor Organization, not to be considered that ratification of this Convention by a Member in any way undermines the law, award, custom or agreement in virtue of which granted to members of the armed forces and police safeguards prescribed by this Convention.

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In this Convention the term organization means any organization of workers or of employers for furthering and defending the interests of workers or employers.

Part II. Protection? Sindicaci n law? N

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Any member of the International Labor Organization which is in force this Convention undertakes to take all necessary and appropriate measures to ensure that workers and employers may exercise freely the right to organize.

Part III. Miscellaneous Provisions

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1. Respect of the territories mentioned in Article 35 of the Constitution of the International Labor Organization, as amended by the Instrument of Amendment to the Constitution of the International Labor Organization, 1946, other than the territories referred to in paragraphs 4 and 5 of the said article as so amended, each Member of the Organization which ratifies this Convention shall communicate to the Director General of the International Labor Office, as soon as possible after its ratification a declaration stating:

a) the territories to which it undertakes that the provisions of the Convention shall be applied without modification;

b) the territories to which it undertakes that the provisions of the Convention shall be applied subject to modifications, together with details of such changes;

c) the territories to which the Convention is inapplicable and the reasons why it is inapplicable;

d) the territories to which it reserves its decision.

2. The obligations referred to in paragraphs a) and b) of paragraph 1 of this Article shall be considered an integral part of the ratification and shall.

3. Any Member may waive, in whole or in part, by a declaration, any reservation made in his first statement under paragraphs b), c) or d) of paragraph 1 of this article.

4. During periods in which this Agreement may be terminated in accordance with Article 16, any member may inform the Director General a declaration modifying in any other respect the terms of any former declaration and stating the the situation in certain areas.

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2. May be communicated to the Director General of the International Labor Office a declaration accepting the obligations of this Convention:

a) two or more Members of the Organization in respect of any territory under their joint authority or

b) any international authority responsible for the administration of any territory under the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations or otherwise, in respect of that territory.

4. The Member, Members or international authority concerned may waive, in whole or in part, by a subsequent declaration of the right to invoke a modification indicated in any former declaration.

5. During periods in which this Agreement may be terminated in accordance with Article 16, Member, Members or international authority concerned may notify the Director General a declaration modifying in any other respect the terms of any in the previous statement and indicated that the situation in regard to the implementation of the Convention.

Convention on the Protection of Wages, 1949 (No. 95)

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For the purposes of this Convention, the term wages means remuneration or earnings, however designated or calculated, which can be assessed in cash, fixed by agreement or by national law, and due for an employer to an employee under an employment contract, written or oral, for the work that it has made or should make or for services rendered or to be provided.

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1. This Convention applies to all persons who are paid or be paid a salary.

2. The competent authority, after consultation with the organizations of employers and workers concerned, where such exist and are directly concerned, exclude from the application of all or any of the provisions of this Convention categories of persons working in circumstances and conditions of employment such that the application of all or any of those provisions is inappropriate and not employed in manual labor or are employed as domestic servants or in similar work.

3. Each Member shall indicate in the first annual report on the implementation of this Convention, to be submitted under article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labor Organization, any category of persons to which it intends to exclude from the application of all or any provision of this Agreement under the terms of the preceding paragraph. No Member may subsequently make exclusions except in respect of categories of persons so indicated.

4. Members to indicate in its first annual report of the categories of individuals is proposed to exclude from the application of all or any of the provisions of this Convention shall indicate in subsequent annual reports, the categories of persons who renounce andalusia right to invoke the provisions of paragraph 2 of this Article and any progress that may have been made to implement the Convention to such categories of people.

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1. Wages to be paid in cash will be paid entirely in legal tender, and shall prohibit the payment by promissory notes, vouchers, coupons or any other form which is considered to be representative of the legal tender.

2. The competent authority may permit or require the payment of wages by check at a bank or postal order, where this mode of payment is customary or necessary because of special circumstances, when a collective agreement or arbitration award so provides or when, in the absence of such provisions, the worker concerned consent.

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1. National legislation, collective agreements or arbitration awards may allow partial payment of wages in kind in the industries or occupations in which this form of payment is customary or desirable because of the nature of the industry or occupation involved. In no event shall permit the payment of wages in the spirits or harmful drugs.

2. In cases where the authorizing partial payment of wages in kind, appropriate measures shall be taken to ensure that:

a) such allowances are appropriate for the personal use of the worker and his family, and benefit from them;

b) the value attributed to such allowances is fair and reasonable.

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Wages shall be paid directly to the worker concerned, unless national legislation, collective agreement or arbitration award to establish another form of payment, or that the worker accepts a different procedure.

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Shall be prohibited from employers in any way limit the freedom of workers to dispose of his wages.

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1. When you believe, within a company commissaries to sell merchandise to employees or provide services for benefits, should not be no coercion on the workers to make use of such services.

2. Where it is possible access to other stores or services, the competent authority shall take appropriate measures to ensure that goods are sold at fair and reasonable prices, the services are provided under the same conditions and that the stores or services provided by the employer not to exploit for profit but for the benefit of the workers concerned.

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1. Deductions from wages shall be permitted only under the conditions and limits set by national legislation, a collective agreement or arbitration award.

2. Must be given to workers, as the competent authority deems appropriate, the conditions and limits to be observed to make such deductions.

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Shall be prohibited any deduction of wages is made to ensure a direct or indirect payment for an employee to the employer, its representative or any intermediary (such as officials responsible for hiring labor) to obtain or retain employment.

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1. Wages may be attached or assigned only in the manner and within the limits set by national legislation.

2. Wages shall be protected against attachment or assignment to the extent deemed necessary for the maintenance of the worker and his family.

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1. In the event of bankruptcy or judicial liquidation of a company, workers employed in the same shall be treated as preferential creditors in respect of the wages must be for services rendered during a period preceding the bankruptcy or liquidation to be determined by national legislation or with respect to wages not exceeding an amount set by national legislation.

2. Wages constituting a privileged debt shall be paid in full before the unsecured creditors to claim the assets.

3. National law shall determine the relative priority of wages constituting a privileged debt and other debts.

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1. Wages shall be paid at regular intervals. Unless there are satisfactory arrangements to ensure payment of wages at regular intervals, the intervals for the payment of wages shall be by law or fixed by collective agreement or arbitration award.

2. When completed the work contract must be made a final settlement of all wages due, in accordance with national law, collective agreement or arbitration award, or failing such law, agreement or award within a period reasonable, given the terms of the contract.

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1. The payment of wages is made in cash shall be made only on weekdays, in the workplace or in a place next to it, unless national legislation, collective agreement or arbitration award provides otherwise or other arrangements known to the workers concerned are considered more appropriate.

2. It should prohibit the payment of wages in taverns or other similar establishments and, where necessary to prevent abuses, in-store retail and entertainment centers, except for persons employed in these establishments.

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Effective measures must be taken, where necessary, to make known to employees in an appropriate and easily understood: a) prior to holding a job or when any change in, the wage that be applied;

b) each payment of wages, the elements constituting the wages in the pay period in question, provided that these elements may be subject to change.

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The legislation giving effect to the provisions of this Convention shall: a) made available to stakeholders;

b) define the persons responsible for ensuring its implementation;

c) establishing appropriate sanctions for any violation;

d) provide, where necessary, to maintain a registration system which has been approved.

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1. When the territory of a Member includes large areas where, because of the sparseness of the population or the stage of economic development, the competent authority considers it impracticable to enforce the provisions of this Convention, the authority, after consultation with the organizations employers and workers concerned, where such exist, exempt such areas from the application of the Convention, either generally or with such exceptions as it deems appropriate in respect of particular undertakings or occupations.

2. Each Member shall indicate in the first annual report on the implementation of this Convention, to be submitted under article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labor Organization, the entire region in which it proposes to invoke the provisions of this Article shall state the reasons that lead to benefit from these provisions. No Member may subsequently invoke the provisions of this Article, except with respect to the regions so indicated.

3. Any Member invoking the provisions of this Article shall, at least every three years and after consulting the organizations of employers and workers concerned, where such exist, the possibility of extending the application of the Convention to areas exempted in under paragraph 1.

4. Any Member invoking the provisions of this Article shall indicate in subsequent annual reports, the regions for which renounces the right to invoke those provisions and any progress that may have been made to gradually implement the present Convention in those regions.

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1. Declarations communicated to the Director General of the International Labor Office, in accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 35 of the Constitution of the International Labor Organization, should indicate:

a) the territories to which the Member concerned undertakes that the provisions of the Convention shall be applied without modification;

b) the territories to which it undertakes that the provisions of the Convention shall be applied subject to modifications, together with details of such changes;

c) the territories to which the Convention is inapplicable and why it is inapplicable;

d) the territories to which it reserves its decision pending further consideration of their situation.

2. The obligations referred to in paragraphs a) and b) of paragraph 1 of this Article shall be considered an integral part of the ratification and shall.

3. Any Member may waive, in whole or in part, by a declaration, any reservation made in his first statement under paragraphs b), c) or d) of paragraph 1 of this article.

4. During periods in which this Agreement may be terminated in accordance with Article 22, a Member may notify the Director General a declaration modifying in any other respect the terms of any former declaration and stating the the situation in certain areas.

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1. Declarations communicated to the Director General of the International Labor Office, in accordance with paragraphs 4 and 5 of Article 35 of the Constitution of the International Labor Organization should indicate whether the provisions of the Convention will be applied in the territory concerned or with modifications without them, and when the declaration indicates that the provisions of the Convention shall be applied without modification, you must specify what those changes.

2. The Member, Members or international authority concerned may waive, in whole or in part, by a subsequent declaration, the right to invoke a modification indicated in any former declaration.

3. During periods in which this Agreement may be terminated in accordance with Article 22, Member, Members or international authority concerned may notify the Director General a declaration modifying in any other respect the terms of any in the previous statement and indicated that the situation in regard to the implementation of the Convention.