SECTION 1

1. With a view to stimulating economic growth and development, raising levels of living, meeting manpower requirements and overcoming unemployment 1 Date of coming into force : 15 July 1966. C. 122 Employment Policy, 1964 and underemployment, each Member shall declare and pursue, as a major goal, an active policy designed to promote full, productive and freely chosen employment. 2. The said policy shall aim at ensuring that— (a) there is work for all who are available for and seeking work ; (b) such work is as productive as possible ; (c) there is freedom of choice of employment and the fullest possible opportu- nity for each worker to qualify for, and to use his skills and endowments in, a job for which he is well suited, irrespective of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin. 3. The said policy shall take due account of the stage and level of economic development and the mutual relationships between employment objectives and other economic and social objectives, and shall be pursued by methods that are appropriate to national conditions and practices.