British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 752

CHAPTER XVII.

(ii) Unemployment Convention 1919.

This Convention is not applied. However, a Public Employment Exchanges Ordinance is contemplated, which will, when enacted, abolish fee-charging employment agencies but leave the free private exchanges functioning under Government control.

(iii) Childbirth Convention 191\l.

The main requirements of this Convention are met in the provisions of the Employment of Women Ordinance. The Ordinance, however, falls somewhat short of the Convention in regard to the period of compulsory absence after childbirth and in the extent of maternity benefits.

(iv) Night Work ( Women) Convention 1919-(Revised), 1934.

The requirements of this Convention are met in the provisions of the Employment of Women Ordinance, 1945. The Ordinance, however, is more advanced than the measures visualized by the Convention in regard to its application to transport undertakings and to certain non-industrial undertakings, services and establishments.

(v) Minimum Age (Industry) Convention 1919-(Revised). 1937.

The general principles of this Convention are met in the provisions of the Employment of Children and Young Persons Ordinance, 1945. The Ordinance falls short of the Convention in regard to minimum age. The Ordinance prescribes that a child under the age of 14 shall not be employed in an industrial undertaking unless at the date of commencement of the Ordinance he or she is employed and has attained the age of 12. The Convention requires a minimum age of 15.

(vi) Night Work (Young Persons) Convention 1919.

The requirements of this Convention are met in the provisions of the Employment of Children and Young Persons Ordinance. The Ordinance, however, is more advanced than the Convention; female and male young persons (between the ages of 16 and 18) may be employed during the night in some specified industrial undertakings, and in case of emergencies which could not have been controlled or foreseen, or in which the public interest is involved. The Ordinance restricts this exception to male young persons and lays down special conditions regarding the frequency of turn, hours and written permission.

(vii) Minimum Age (Agriculture) Convention 1921.

This Convention is not applied; children under the age of 12 are permitted to engage in any type of agricultural work.

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