No. 64 - Contracts of Employment (Indigenous Workers), 1939 [Shelved]

Provisions

• This Convention is designed to regulate contracts of employment of indigenous workers. In this Convention, indigenous workers are defined as workers 'belonging to or assimilated to the indigenous population of a dependent territory of a Member of the Organisation or belonging to or assimilated to the dependent indigenous population of the home territory of a Member of the Organisation.'
• The contracts covered by this Convention are for the most part contracts of employment under which a worker enters the service of an employer as a manual worker.
• This Convention contains detailed provisions regarding the form and content of such contracts and the conditions of their validity.

Administered by

Not applicable.

How New Zealand implements it

• New Zealand does not have a 'dependent' indigenous population of its home territory. Its only dependent territory is Tokelau, to which the Convention does not apply. Accordingly, this Convention has no application to New Zealand.

Ratified - 8 July 1947

Total ratifications - 28