Employment Promotion and Protection against Unemployment Convention, 1988 is an International Labour Organization

International Labour Organization

The International Labour Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that deals with labour issues pertaining to international labour standards. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. Its secretariat — the people who are employed by it throughout the world — is known as the...

 Convention to promote employment especially vocational guidance, training and rehabilitation, offr the best protection against the adverse effects of involuntary unemployment, but that involuntary unemployment nevertheless exisists and that it is therefore important to ensure the social security

Social security

Social security is primarily a social insurance program providing social protection or protection against socially recognized conditions, including poverty, old age, disability, unemployment and others. Social security may refer to:...

 systems should promote employment assistance and economic support to those who are involuntary unemployed.

It was established in 1988, with the preamble stating:

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to employment promotion and social security which is the fifth item on the agenda of the session with a view, in particular, to revising the Unemployment Provision Convention, 1934, and
Emphasising the importance of work and productive employment in any society not only because of the resources which they create for the community, but also because of income which they bring towards the social role whoch they confer and feeling of self-esteem

Self-esteem

Self-esteem is a term in psychology to reflect a person's overall evaluation or appraisal of his or her own worth. Self-esteem encompasses beliefs and emotions such as triumph, despair, pride and shame: some would distinguish how 'the self-concept is what we think about the self; self-esteem, the...

 which workers derive from them, and...

Ratifications

style="font-size: larger;" | The following countries have ratified this Convention:

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