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

Minimum Wage Fixing Convention, 1970 (No. 131) - Yemen (Ratification: 1976)

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 following matters raised in its previous direct request:

Article 1 of the Convention. The Committee recalls that section 3 of the Labour Code excludes from the scope thereof, in addition to public officials and employees and workers of the public administration, persons engaged in occasional employment lasting less than one month, agricultural workers not permanently employed in an undertaking and domestic servants (whose employment conditions may be regulated by an Order of the competent Minister). The Committee noted that there was legislation governing the fixing of the minimum wages of state officials and workers, and requests the Government to provide information on the entire minimum wage system covering the categories of workers mentioned above who remain outside the scope of the Labour Code by virtue of section 3 thereof.

Article 4. The Committee noted that the Wage Fixing Committee provided for by section 85 of the Labour Code had not yet been established owing, in particular, to the constant and rapid increase in workers' wages. The Committee recalls that, according to the Convention, each Member which ratifies it undertakes to establish and maintain a system for fixing and adjusting minimum wages which covers all groups of wage-earners whose terms of employment are such that coverage would be appropriate. The Committee hopes that appropriate steps will be taken to establish the Wage Fixing Committee provided for by the Labour Code.