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Article 22 The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are equally authoritative. RECOMMENDATION CONCERNING THE ORGANIZATION OF THE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, Having been convened at San Francisco by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Thirty-first Session on 17 June, 1948, and Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the organization of the employment service, which is included in the fourth item on the Agenda of the session, and Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a Recommendation supplementing the Employment Service Recommendation, 1944, and the Employment Service Convention 1948, adopts this 9th day of July of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Employment Service Recommendation, 1948 : Whereas the Employment Service Recommendation, 1944, and the Employment Service Convention, 1948, provide for the organization of employment services, and it is desirable to supplement the provisions thereof by further recommendations ; The Conference recommends that each member should apply the following provisions as rapidly as national conditions allow and report to the International Labour Office as requested by the Governing Body concerning the measures taken to give effect thereto. I. General Organization 1. The free public employment service should comprise a central headquarters, local offices and, where necessary, regional offices. 2. In order to promote development of the employment service, and to secure unified and co-ordinated national administration, provision should be made for—(a) The issue by the headquarters of national administrative instructions ; (b) The formulation of minimum national standards concerning the staffing and material arrangements of the employment offices; (c) Adequate financing of the service by the Government (d) Periodical reports from lower to higher administrative levels; (e) National inspection of regional and local offices; and (/) Periodical conferences among central, regional and local officers, including inspection staff. 3. Appropriate arrangements should be made by the employment service for such co-operation as may be necessary with management, workers' representatives, and bodies set up with a view to studying the special employment problems of particular areas, undertakings, industries, or groups of industries. 4. Measures should be taken in appropriate cases to develop, within the general framework of the employment services—(a) Separate employment offices specializing in meeting the needs of employers and workers belonging to particular industries or occupations such as port transport, merchant marine, building and civil engineering, agriculture and forestry and domestic service, wherever the character or importance of the industry or occupation or other special factors justify the maintenance of such separate offices ; 2—A 7a

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