Establishment of a European Manpower Board and the Social Security of Migrant Workers

Recommendation 3 (1951)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

This Recommendation was adopted by the Assembly at its Fifteenth Sitting, 14th May 1951. (See Doc. 36, Report of the Committee on Social Questions.)

Thesaurus

The Assembly

a Declares that is is necessary to create a European Manpower Board with the task of co-ordinating, in the general interest, the manpower policy of the various countries concerned, and of developing relations with the overseas countries prepared to accept immigrants ; the creation of this Board to be effected in close collaboration with the O. E. E. C. and the I. L. O.,

b Maintains that the first social right of the migrant worker is that he should be accompanied, or joined at the earliest possible moment, by his family ; and that in any event the migrant worker's family should receive all the benefits to which it is normally entitled, the place of residence not being allowed to act as a restrictive factor,

c Recommends that particular account should be taken of this requirement in preparing draft Multilateral Agreements on Social Security, and that the attention of the Governments concerned should be drawn thereto.