Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2012, published 102nd ILC session (2013)

Minimum Wage Fixing Convention, 1970 (No. 131) - Niger (Ratification: 1980)

Other comments on C131

Observation

Direct Request

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The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Repetition
Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention. Minimum wage level. Recalling that in an earlier report the Government had indicated that the determination of the SMIG level is based on a basket of essential consumer goods, the Committee would appreciate receiving full particulars on the surveys of national economic conditions, the cost-of-living index, or other similar indicators, which were used for the readjustment of the minimum wage. In addition, the Committee requests the Government to provide some indication as to whether the SMIG’s current level may be considered to be adequate to cover the basic subsistence needs of workers and ensure a decent standard of living for them and their families.
Article 4(2). Full consultations with the social partners. The Committee recalls that the Convention requires full, genuine and effective consultations with representative organizations of employers and workers at all stages of the minimum wage fixing process. Based on the information provided by the Government in its last report, however, it is unclear whether the tripartite Labour Consultative Committee referred to in section 153 of the Labour Code has been involved in the process of reviewing the guaranteed minimum interoccupational wage. The Committee therefore requests the Government to supply additional information on the institutional framework within which consultations with the social partners were held regarding the revaluation of the SMIG, and any provision which may have already been made for future discussions on this subject.
Article 5 of the Convention and Part V of the report form. Enforcement measures. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would make an effort to collect and transmit in future reports up to date information on the practical application of the Convention, including for instance the approximate number of workers remunerated at the minimum wage rate, statistics on labour inspection results or other enforcement measures concerning minimum wages, official documents or studies on minimum wage policy, such as activity reports of the Labour Consultative Committee, etc.

The Committee requests the Government to reply to the points raised above in the light of Act No. 2012-45 of 25 September 2012 establishing the Labour Code and to transmit a copy of the most recent decrees fixing the SMIG level and the minimum pay rates by professional category of workers established by the interprofessional collective agreement.