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JAM-1940-L-37112
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Title_of_text
Recruiting of Workers Act (Cap. 336).
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Jamaica
Subjects (Classification)
Employment policy, promotion of employment and employment services; Migrant workers
Adopted on (Date of text)
1940-06-06
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Law, Act
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
This Act is applicable to all professional, as well as parts of the private recruitment of foreign workers for employment abroad. It does not cover the recruitment of personal or domestic servants nor of nonmanual workers. Professional recruiters (except "worker-recruiters") must have a licence, which is granted on specified conditions. Offences against the Act are criminally sanctioned. The travel expenses for the recruited foreign worker (and his family) to the place of employment is the responsibility of the recruiter (but not the "worker-recruiter") or the employer. The recruiter or employer is responsible for the recruited worker during his journey and if he becomes incapacitated by sickness or accident during the journey, he (and his family) shall be repatriated at the recruiter's or employer's expense. Recruitment is conditioned on the age and the medical fitness of the recruited worker and the lack or coercion and misrepresentation during his recruitment. Recruited foreign workers must be above sixteen, but may, under certain conditions, be under eighteen. The medical fitness of the worker is to be established upon arrival. A medically unfit worker (and his family) shall be repatriated at the expense of the recruiter or the employer. The absence of coercion and misrepresentation in the recruitment procedure is to be established by a Judge upon the arrival of the recruited worker. On a contrary finding the recruited worker (and his family) shall be returned home at the expense of the recruiter or employer. If a worker not engaged, after being recruited, for a reason for which he is not responsible, the worker (and his family) must be repatriated at the expense of the recruiter or the employer.
Related Text region
Related text(s)
1875-03-12 (JAM-1875-L-31024)
Foreign Recruiting Act (Cap. 133).
Related text(s)
1875-03-12 (JAM-1875-L-31024)
Foreign Recruiting Act (Cap. 133).
Electronic region
Electronic source title
Laws of Jamaica
Publisher
Ministry of Justice
Country
Jamaica
URL
http://www.moj.gov.jm/law
File
JAM37112.pdf (PDF)
Serial region
Serial title
Laws of Jamaica
Volume
Vol. XV