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

Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26) - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (Ratification: 1944)

The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government concerning the minimum wage rates that have been fixed over recent years, and concerning the Act setting up the National Commission for Costs, Prices and Wages. The Committee requests the Government to inform it in its next report of the operation of the National Commission in fixing minimum wages and the role it plays in this process, in accordance with the provisions of section 6(5) of the above Act. The Committee also hopes that the Government will supply information, in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 of the Convention, regarding the number of workers covered by the minimum wage system, on the new minimum wage rates and the consultations which took place with employers' and workers' organisations for this purpose.