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

Minimum Wage Fixing Convention, 1970 (No. 131) - Costa Rica (Ratification: 1979)

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 4. The Committee noted that, with regard to minimum wages in the private sector, general readjustments of wages were decreed as from 1983, and that these were normally carried out in the middle of the year, under the terms of section 19 of Decree No. 832 of 1949. Nevertheless, although the Government indicated the percentages by which minimum wages were adjusted between 1980 and 1983, it did not give the current rates of the new minimum wages in the country. Furthermore, with regard to minimum wages in the public sector, the Government indicated that these were the subject of negotiations, which take advance account of the forecast inflation. However, no indication was given of the minimum wages that have been fixed or adjusted over recent years for this sector, and in particular for the period covered by the report. The Committee accordingly requests the Government to specify the minimum wages that are in force for the public and private sectors, at least for the period covered by the Government's report.

The Committee noted the information concerning the income of persons affected by invisible underemployment, and concerning the Government's endeavours to generate new jobs. The Committee requests the Government to continue supplying information concerning the level of income received by the persons concerned.