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

Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26) - Argentina (Ratification: 1950)

The Committee notes the Government's report as well as the comments made by the United Trade Union of Educational Workers of Buenos Aires (SUTEBA) in a letter of October 1992, a copy of which was transmitted to the Government in December 1992 for comments.

1. The Committee notes that the SUTEBA considers the Provincial Decree No. 2202/92, which lays down a system called "PRESENTISMO", affects the application, inter alia, of Convention No. 26. The Committee requests the Government to communicate its comments on this question, including information on the application in practice of the said Provincial Decree with relation to the minimum wage.

2. The Committee notes that the National Employment Act No. 24.013 of 5 December 1991 established the National Council for Employment, Productivity and the Adjustable Minimum Living Wage, which consists of equal numbers of employers' and workers' representatives, and which periodically determines among other things the adjustable minimum living wage. It also notes the information on the evolution of the minimum living wage rates.

Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes with interest that in virtue of the Resolution of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (No. 320) of 5 October 1989, the Wages Commissions under Act No. 12.713 concerning homework were established.

The Committee hopes that the Government continues to provide information on the results of the application of the minimum wage fixing machinery, including information on the minimum wages applicable to the homeworking sector.