72/1985 Coll.



The DECREE



Minister of Foreign Affairs



of 6 December. August 1985



the Convention for the work rehabilitation and employment (No. 159)



20 December. June 1983 was on 69. meeting of the General Conference

The International Labour Organisation adopted the Convention for the work rehabilitation and

employment (No. 159). The Ratification Of The Convention By The Czechoslovak

Socialist Republic of Vietnam was registered on 21. February 1985 by the

the Director of the International Labour Office. According to its article 11, paragraph 3

The Convention for the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic shall enter into force

day 21. February 1986.



Czech translation of the Convention shall be published at the same time.



First Deputy:



Rehorek v.r.



Convention



about the employment rehabilitation and employment (No. 159)



The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, which was convened

The Administrative Council of the International Labour Office in Geneva, and there met on 1 May 2004.

in June 1983, at its ninth meeting, the 60th



evoking the existing international standards contained in the recommendations on the

the working rehabilitation of invalids, 1955 and in the recommendation on the development of human

resources, 1975



in recognition of that, since the adoption of the recommendations of the working rehabilitation of invalids,

1955, there have been significant developments in the understanding of the need for rehabilitation, in

the scale and organization of rehabilitation services and in legislation and practice

many of the Member States on matters for which it is to this recommendation,



Bearing in mind that the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the year

1981 international year of disability under the slogan "full participation and equality" and that

Wide World Programme of action concerning the disability has on the national and

international level to ensure effective measures for the implementation of the objectives of the "full

the participation of "disability in social life and development and" equality ",



being of the opinion that in view of this development, it is appropriate to adopt a new

the international standards on this matter, which shall take into account, in particular, that is

all groups should be ensured equal opportunities and treatment of disability

both in rural and in urban areas, to be able to perform

employment and participate in the community,



rozhodnuvši accept some proposals concerning the rehabilitation,

which are the fourth point of the agenda of the meeting, and stanovivši, that these

the proposals will take the form of an International Convention,



accepts 20 December. June 1983 this Convention, which will be referred to as

Convention on employment rehabilitation and the employment of invalids, 1983:



PART I.



Definition and scope of the



Article 1



1. for the purposes of this Convention, the term "disabled" means any person whose

prospects find and keep suitable employment and achieve it

procedure are substantially reduced as a result of duly recognised body

or mental disability.



2. for the purposes of this Convention, each Member State will be based on the fact that

the purpose of rehabilitation is to allow an invalid earned and retained

suitable employment and it progressed, and so it was easier to

involvement or recovery integration into society.



3. Each Member State shall carry out the provisions of this Convention by

measures which comply with the national conditions and correspond to the

national practice.



4. the provisions of this Convention shall apply to all groups of invalids.



PART II.



The principles of policy in the field of disability rehabilitation and employment



Article 2



Each Member State shall, in accordance with national conditions, practice and

the possibilities to establish, implement and periodically review a national

policy in the field of rehabilitation and the employment of invalids.



Article 3



The said policy shall have as its objective to ensure that the appropriate measures of the working

rehabilitation was available to all groups, and promote the

to employ the disabled options in the free recruitment.



Article 4



Such a policy should be based on the principle of equal opportunities for

disabled and other workers. Care must be taken to equal opportunities and

the treatment of disabled employees and disabled employees. Special

positive measures to ensure real equality of opportunities and

the treatment of disabled workers and other workers shall not be

considered as discriminatory against other workers.



Article 5



With representative organizations of workers and employers is to be

discuss the implementation of the said policy, including measures that need to be

make to promote cooperation and coordination between public and private

institutions that deal with the rehabilitation work. It is also necessary to

Act with representative organisations of invalids or those that

they deal with.



PART III.



National measures for the development of rehabilitation and employment

invalids



Article 6



Each Member State has, through national laws or regulations or

any other manner consistent with national practice and conditions, make

the measures necessary for the implementation of articles 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this

of the Convention.



Article 7



The competent authorities shall take measures for the purpose of the provision and

evaluation guidance, vocational education,

mediation work, and other related services, which are designed to allow

disabled to get and keep a job and achieve progress in it;

the existing services for workers at all they should be, if possible, and

appropriate, used after making the necessary adjustments.



Article 8



It is necessary to take measures for the creation and development of work rehabilitation and

the employment of invalids in the rural areas and in remote villages.



Article 9



Each Member State has to strive for and availability of trained consultants in

matters of rehabilitation, as well as other suitably qualified persons

responsible for the consultancy for the choice of profession, professional education,

mediation work and employing invalids.



PART IV.



Final provisions



Article 10



The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the Director-

The International Labour Office and written by him.



Article 11



1. this Convention undertakes to only the Member States of the international organization

labour, whose ratification has been registered by the Director General.



2. Shall take effect twelve months after the date the Director writes

the ratification of the two Member States.



3. For each Member State will take the effectiveness of the Convention 12

months from the date on which its ratification has been registered.



Article 12



1. each Member which has ratified this Convention may denounce it

After the expiration of ten years from the date on which this Convention became for the first time

the effectiveness of written communication to the Director General of the International Office

work that is writes. Termination shall take effect one year after the date on which the

It was registered.



2. each Member State that has ratified this Convention and which does not apply

rights to terminate her under this article during the year following the

the expiry of the period of ten years, as mentioned in the previous paragraph, the

by the Convention for the next ten-year period and then it will be able to terminate

always after the expiry of the 10-year period, under the conditions laid down in this

article.



Article 13



1. the Director General of the International Labour Office shall notify all the Member

States, the International Labour Organisation the ratification and registration of all the testimony,

which the Member States shall communicate to the Organization.



2. When the Member States of the Organization to communicate to write the second

ratification, which was notified to the Director General, notify the Member

States of the Organization to the date when this Convention enters into force.



Article 14



Director General of the International Labour Office shall notify the

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 testimonies, which enrolled

in accordance with the provisions of the preceding articles.



Article 15



At any time it deems necessary, the Administrative Council of the International Office

work shall submit to the General Conference a report on the implementation of this Convention, and

examine whether it is desirable to put on the agenda of the Conference the question of its

a full or partial revision.



Article 16



1. The General Conference adopt a new Convention revising or completely

partly this Convention and does not appoint a new Convention otherwise:



and the ratification of the new revising Convention) will cause immediate ipso jure

denunciation of this Convention, notwithstanding the provisions of article 12, and that with

subject to the new revising Convention enters into force,



(b)), from the time when the new revising Convention enters into force, this Convention shall

Member States shall cease to be open to ratification.



2. this Convention remains in force in its form and content for those

Member States which have ratified it but have not ratified, a new

the revising Convention.



Article 17



The English and French texts of this Convention are equally authentic.