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INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE

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Convention 158

CONVENTION CONCERNING TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT at THE INITIATIVE OF THE EMPLOYER

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 Sixty-eighth Session on 2 June 1982, and

Noting the existing international standards contained in the Termination of

Employment Recommendation, 1963, and

Noting that since the adoption of the Termination of Employment Recommen- dation, 1963, significant developments have occurred in the law and practice of many member States on the questions covered by that Recommendation, and

Considering that these developments have made it appropriate to adopt new international standards on the subject, particularly having regard to the serious problems in this field resulting from the economic difficulties and technological changes experienced in recent years in many countries, Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to termination of employment at the initiative of the employer, which is the fifth item on the agenda of the session, and

Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international

Convention;

adopts this twenty-second day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and eighty-two the following Convention, which may be cited as the Termination of Employment Convention, 1982:

PART I. METHODS OF IMPLEMentation, Scope and DefinitIONS

Article 1

The provisions of this Convention shall, in so far as they are not otherwise made effective by means of collective agreements, arbitration awards or court decisions or in such other manner as may be consistent with national practice, be given effect by laws or regulations.

Article 2

1. This Convention applies to all branches of economic activity and to all employed persons.

2. A Member may exclude the following categories of employed persons from all or some of the provisions of this Convention:

(a) workers engaged under a contract of employment for a specified period of

time or a specified task;

(b) workers serving a period of probation or a qualifying period of employment,

determined in advance and of reasonable duration;

(c) workers engaged on a casual basis for a short period.