Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26) - Morocco (Ratification: 1958)

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 the comments made by the Democratic Confederation of Labour and the General Union of Moroccan Workers which the Committee noted in its 1991 general observation, regarding in particular the following points:

Article 3, paragraph 2(1) and (2), of the Convention. The above organisations of workers state in their comments that the Government unilaterally fixes the minimum wages for different sectors without consulting the workers' organisations and that such a machinery as the Central Committee for wages and prices under Dahir of 31 October 1959 does not function in practice. Please indicate the method employed for consulting the interested parties and the means by which the employer and workers concerned are associated with the operation of the minimum wage fixing machinery under these provisions of the Convention.

Article 4, paragraph 1. The said comments also mention the increase of the cases of violation of minimum wages, referring to a study by the World Bank in 1978 showing that more than 60 per cent of enterprises accord wages less than the minimum wage. Please supply information on measures taken to ensure that wages are not paid at less than the applicable minimum rate in accordance with this provision.