Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1993, published 80th ILC session (1993)

Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26) - Türkiye (Ratification: 1975)

1. The Committee notes with interest that the minimum wage rates applicable to all sectors of the economy have been fixed annually since July 1989 by the Minimum Wage Fixing Board.

2. Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes the information concerning domestic services, namely a copy of the relevant part of the Code of Obligations and the summary of verdicts of the High Court of Appeal. It again requests the Government to indicate the texts which regulate work performed at home by members of a family or close relatives involving handicrafts and without any outside help, which is excluded from the scope of Labour Act No. 1475, in virtue of its section 5, paragraph (3).

3. The Committee hopes that the Government will continue to supply information on the effect given in practice to the Convention, in accordance with Article 5.