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Practice question: Ratified International Labour Organization (ILO) Conventions

Multiple Choice Hard Jurisprudence

Practice question

A State invokes Article 8’s duty to respect national law as permission to enact or apply any rule impairing the Convention’s organizational guarantees. What companion provision defeats that categorical reading?
  1. Article 8 also says the law must not impair or be applied to impair the guarantees
  2. National law may always extinguish every guarantee
  3. Article 8 contains no protection against impairment
  4. Only the organization must obey the Convention
  5. Ratification has no significance

Legal references

  • ILO Convention No. 87, Articles 2-4 and Philippine ratification note: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/36/12373

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