Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1989, published 76th ILC session (1989)

Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery (Agriculture) Convention, 1951 (No. 99) - Algeria (Ratification: 1962)

Article 3 of the Convention. Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes that employers' and workers' organsiations are consulted in connection with fixing minimum wages, within the framework of the bodies responsible for the implementation of the Conditions of Employment (SGT), the ministerial commission of the SGT and of its limited technical committee.

Article 5. The Committee also notes the information communicated by the Government on the number of workers employed in the agricultural sector. It also notes that agricultural workers are covered by the national guaranteed minimum wage (SMNG) under Decree No. 79-302 of 31 December 1979. The Committee notes from the information communicated by the Government in its previous report that the most recent information on raising the minimum wage dates from 1980; it requests the Government to send with its next report information on the latest increase in minimum wages.