Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

Protection of Wages Convention, 1949 (No. 95) - Saint Lucia (Ratification: 1980)

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:

Article 4, paragraph 1, of the Convention. In previous comments, the Committee referred to section 2 of the Protection of Wages Ordinance (Amendment) Act No. 13 of 1975, under which "nothing in this Act shall render illegal any agreement or contract with a worker for the partial payment of his wages (...) in the form of intoxicating liquor or noxious drugs". It noted the statement made by the Government concerning the measures taken to amend this provision.

The Committee notes from the Government's report that in practice wages are not paid in the form of liquor or drugs. It notes, however, that no information is supplied on the amendment of section 2 of the Protection of Wages Ordinance (Amendment) Act No. 13 of 1975 to meet the requirements of Article 4, paragraph 1, of the Convention which prohibits in any circumstances the payment of wages in the form of liquor of high alcoholic content or of noxious drugs.

The Committee hopes that the Government will soon be in a position to indicate that the necessary amendments have been made to bring the legislation into conformity with the Convention.