The General Conference of the International Labour Organization,
Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office,
and having met in its Eighty-third Session on 4 June 1996, and
Recalling that many international labour Conventions and Recommendations laying down
standards of general application concerning working conditions are applicable to homeworkers,
and
Noting that the particular conditions characterizing home work make it desirable to
improve the application of those Conventions and Recommendations to homeworkers, and
to supplement them by standards which take into account the special characteristics
of home work, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to home work, which
is the fourth item on the agenda of the session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention;
adopts, this twentieth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-six,
the following Convention, which may be cited as the Home Work Convention, 1996: