Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2001, Publicación: 90ª reunión CIT (2002)

The Committee notes the information contained in the Government’s report and the attached documents.

Article 3, paragraph 2(2), of the Convention. The Committee has been commenting for many years on section 4 of the Wages and Conditions of Employment Tribunals Act of 1976 drawing attention to the need to ensure that employers’ and workers’ representatives be associated in the operation of the tribunals in equal numbers and on equal terms. The Government has on several occasions expressed its intention to amend this Act with a view to bringing it into full conformity with the Convention but concrete measures to this effect have not as yet been taken. The Committee firmly hopes that the Government will not fail to take the necessary action in the very near future. It requests the Government to indicate, in its next report, the progress made in this regard.

Article 5 of the Convention and Part V of the report form. The Committee notes from the Government’s report that minimum wage orders, such as those for dockers and heavy truck drivers, are issued after agreement between employers and workers and provide for wage rates which are higher than the general minimum wage. It also notes the Government’s indication that the minimum wage order for bakery workers is currently under revision by a tripartite committee. The Committee requests the Government to continue supplying information on the functioning of the minimum wage-fixing machinery, not only concerning the above categories of workers but also for other categories of workers, including information on the minimum wage rates fixed and the approximate numbers of workers covered, as well as any other particulars bearing on the practical application of the Convention.