1. Any member of the International Labour Organization ratifying this Agreement shall ¹ To maintain a system that provides for the involuntary unemployed covered by this Convention:

(a)

"Allowance" means an amount paid as a result of contributions paid by virtue of the beneficiary's employment by affiliation to a system is compulsory, or optional;

(b)

An "allowance", that is, a benefit which does not constitute compensation or relief under the general measures of assistance to the indigent, but which may constitute the remuneration of a job in organised relief work Under the conditions laid down in Art. 9;

(c)

A combination of allowances and allowances.

2. Provided that it ensures, to all persons to whom this Agreement applies, the allowances or allowances provided for in s. 1, this system can be:

(a)

Mandatory insurance;

(b)

Optional insurance;

(c)

A combination of compulsory insurance and optional insurance schemes;

(d)

One of the above systems complemented by a system of assistance.

3. It is for the national legislation to lay down, where appropriate, the conditions under which the unemployed would be called upon to move from the benefits scheme to the benefit scheme.

1. This Agreement applies to all persons who are ordinarily employed in exchange for salary or wages.

(2) However, each member may provide, in his national law, such exceptions as he deems necessary in respect of:

(a)

Home people;

(b)

Home workers;

(c)

Workers who hold stable jobs depending on the government, local authorities or a utility service;

(d)

Non-manual workers whose earnings are considered by the competent authority to be high enough to enable them to protect themselves against the risk of unemployment;

(e)

Workers whose employment is seasonal, when the duration of the season is normally less than six months and the persons concerned are not ordinarily occupied, for the remainder of the year, to another employment covered by the present Convention;

(f)

Young workers who have not yet reached a specified age;

(g)

Workers who have exceeded a specified age and who are in receipt of a retirement or old-age pension;

(h)

Persons who are only employed on a casual or subsidiary basis in employment covered by this Agreement;

(i)

Members of the employer's family;

(j)

Exceptional categories of workers for which special circumstances make it unnecessary or impractical to apply the provisions of this Convention.

3. Members shall make known in the annual reports submitted by them on the application of this Convention any exceptions which they have made under the preceding paragraph.

4. This Convention shall not apply to seamen, seamen fishermen or agricultural workers, such as these categories may be defined by national legislation.

In the case of partial unemployment, allowances or allowances shall be allocated to unemployed persons whose employment is reduced under the conditions laid down in the national legislation.

The right to receive an allowance or allowance may be subject to the following conditions to be met by the applicant:

(a)

Being fit for work and available for work;

(b)

Enrol in a public placement office or other office approved by the competent authority and, subject to exceptions and conditions which may be prescribed by national law, regularly attend that office;

(c)

To comply with all other requirements which may be enacted by national legislation in order to determine whether it meets the conditions for the grant of an allowance or allowance.

The right to receive compensation or an allowance may be subject to other conditions or disqualifications, in particular those provided for in art. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12. The conditions and disqualifications other than those provided for in the foregoing Articles shall be indicated in the annual reports submitted by the Members on the application of this Convention.

The right to receive compensation or an allowance may be subject to the completion of an internship involving:

(a)

Either the payment of a specified number of contributions in a specified period prior to the claim or the commencement of unemployment;

(b)

Either employment covered by this Agreement for a specified period prior to the claim for benefits or allowances or before the commencement of unemployment;

(c)

Either a combination of the above methods.

The right to receive compensation or an allowance may be subject to the expiry of a waiting period for which the duration and conditions of application must be laid down by national law.

The right to receive an allowance or allowance may be subject to attendance at a vocational or other course of instruction.

The right to receive compensation or an allowance may be subject to acceptance, under conditions to be determined by national law, of employment in relief work organised by a public authority.

1. The applicant may be disqualified from entitlement to allowances or allowances for an appropriate period if he refuses to accept suitable employment. Should not be considered suitable:

A.

A job whose acceptance would involve the residence in an area where there are no suitable housing options;

B.

A job with a lower wage rate or other conditions of employment less favourable:

I.

That it could not reasonably have been expected of the applicant taking into account those whom he usually obtained in his ordinary occupation, in the region where he was generally employed, or that he would have obtained if he had continued to be so employed (when it is a job offered in the occupation and in the region where the applicant was usually last employed);

Ii.

That the level generally observed at this time in the occupation and in the region in which employment is offered (in all other cases);

C.

A job that is vacant because of a work stoppage due to a labour dispute;

D.

A job such as, for any reason other than those referred to above and taking into account all the circumstances including the applicant's personal circumstances, the refusal of that employment cannot be reasonably reproached.

2. The applicant may be disqualified from entitlement to allowances or allowances for an appropriate period of time:

A.

If he lost his employment as a direct result of a work stoppage due to a labour dispute;

B.

If he has lost his job by his own fault or left voluntarily without legitimate reasons;

C.

If the employee attempted to fraudulently obtain an allowance or allowance;

D.

If it does not comply, in order to find work, the instructions of a public placement office or any other competent authority, or if the competent authority proves that, deliberately or negligently, it has not taken advantage of an opportunity Reasonable employment.

3. Any applicant who, by leaving his employment, has received from his employer, under his employment contract, compensation substantially equal to his loss of gain during a given period, may be deprived of the right to allowances and allowances for The duration of this period. However, severance pay under national law cannot be regarded as such compensation.

The right to receive an allowance or allowance may only be granted for a limited period, which shall not normally be less than 156 working days per year and, under no circumstances, be less than 78 working days per year.

1. Payment of allowances shall not be subject to the applicant's statement of need.

2. The right to receive an allowance may be subject to the finding, under conditions to be determined by national law, of the applicant's condition of need.

1. Compensation must be paid in cash, but additional benefits to facilitate the return of the insured person to work can be attributed in kind.

2. Allowances can be allocated in kind.

Courts or other competent authorities shall be established, in accordance with national law, to decide questions arising from applications for allowances or allowances submitted by persons to whom the application applies. Convention.

1. The applicant may be deprived of the right to allowances or allowances for any period in which he or she resides abroad.

2. A special scheme may be established for frontier workers who have their place of work in one country and their place of residence in another.

Foreigners must be entitled to allowances and allowances under the same conditions as nationals. However, any member may refuse nationals of any member or State which is not bound by this Convention, equal treatment with its own nationals in respect of benefits derived from funds to which the applicant does not Contributed.

The official ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to and registered by the Director General of the International Labour Office.

(1) This Convention shall only bind the members of the International Labour Organization whose ratification has been registered by the Director General.

2. It shall enter into force twelve months after the ratifications of two members have been registered by the Director General.

3. Thereafter, this Convention shall enter into force for each member twelve months after the date on which its ratification has been registered.

As soon as the ratifications of two members of the International Labour Organization have been registered with the International Labour Office, the Director-General of the International Labour Office will notify all members of the The International Labour Organization. It will also notify them of the registration of ratifications, which will subsequently be communicated to it by all other members of the organisation.

1. Any member who has ratified this Convention may denounce it, at the expiration of a period of five years after the date of the initial implementation of the Convention, by an act communicated to the Director General of the International Bureau of the Work, and by registered him. The denunciation shall take effect only one year after being registered at the International Labour Office.

2. Any member who has ratified this Agreement which, within one year after the expiration of the five-year period referred to in the preceding paragraph, shall not make use of the right of denunciation provided for in this Article shall be bound For a further period of five years, and thereafter may terminate this Agreement at the expiration of each five-year period under the conditions set out in this Article.

Whenever it deems it necessary, the Governing Council of the International Labour Office shall submit to the General Conference a report on the application of this Convention and consider whether it should be included in the agenda of the Conference the question of its total or partial revision.

1. In the event that the Conference adopts a new convention for the total or partial revision of this Convention, and unless the new Convention provides otherwise:

A.

Ratification by a member of the new revision agreement would, notwithstanding s. 20 above, immediate denunciation of this Convention, provided that the new revision agreement has entered into force;

B.

From the date of entry into force of the new revision agreement, this Convention shall cease to be open for ratification by the members.

(2) This Convention shall in any case remain in force in its form and content for members who have ratified it and which do not ratify the revised Convention.

Both the English and French texts of this Agreement shall prevail.

(track signatures)