Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1993, published 80th ILC session (1993)

The Committee takes note of the information supplied by the Government in its report, and particularly of the Minimum Wages and Conditions of Employment (General) Order of 1992 and the Minimum Wages and Conditions of Employment (Shop Workers) Order, 1992.

Article 1, paragraph 2, and Article 4, paragraphs 2 and 3, of the Convention. The Committee notes the Government's statement that action will be taken to align section 3(1) of the Minimum Wages and Conditions of Employment Act (Act No. 25 of 1982) with the requirements of the Convention, i.e. full consultation not only with the workers' unions but also the employers' organizations. The Government also indicates that, in practice, both employers' and workers' representatives are already involved in the determination of minimim wages.

With regard to the role of the Prices and Incomes Commission in the determination of minimum wages, the Government indicates that Orders made under section 3 of the above-mentioned Act are made on the basis of recommendations of its wages committee, composed of representatives of the Government, employers and trade unions.

The Committee hopes that the provision of section 3(1) of the said Act will soon be brought into line with the practice as described above by the Government, and thus with the requirement of the Convention regarding the full consultation with both employers' and workers' representative organizations. It would also be grateful to the Government for supplying a copy of any statutory instrument regarding the establishment of the wage committee of the Prices and Incomes Commission.