Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 83rd ILC session (1996)

Protection of Wages Convention, 1949 (No. 95) - Paraguay (Ratification: 1966)

The Committee has noted the information supplied by the Government in its reports as well as the new Labour Code established by Act No. 213/93. It asks the Government to supply information on the following points.

Article 2 of the Convention. The Committee notes that Chapter V of the Labour Code dealing with rural workers (Book I, Title III) does not expressly lay down that the general provisions of the Code are applicable to these workers, contrary to what was the case in the old Code regarding forestry (section 179 of the old Code) and in the chapters on home work (section 147) and on workers in the enterprises of motorized land transport (section 192) of the present Code. Please indicate whether the Labour Code in general and, more particularly, its provisions regarding the protection of wages are applicable to rural workers other than those in work of industrial character, who are already covered by virtue of section 162.

Article 4(1). The Committee recalls that section 232 of the old Code was modified by Act No. 506 of 27 December 1974 and brought into conformity with this provision of the Convention (prohibition to pay wages in the form of alcoholic liquors or noxious drugs). Noting that the new Code does not contain such prohibition, the Committee asks the Government to indicate how effect is given to this provision of the Convention.