Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26) - Seychelles (Ratification: 1978)

The Committee notes the information provided in the Government's report in reply to its previous comments.

Article 1 of the Convention, in conjunction with Articles 3 and 5. The Committee notes the Government's indication that no tripartite wage-fixing committee has been established yet by virtue of section 40 of the Employment Act, 1995, and that there is no national statutory minimum wages. However, the Government states that it has prescribed an average national norm of SR1,900 per month for all its employees. The Committee also notes that the Ministry of Administration and Manpower has signed a collective agreement with the Seychelles Federation of Workers' Union.

The Committee recalls the obligation for the ratifying State, under Article 1 of the Convention, to create or maintain minimum wage fixing machinery for workers employed in certain of the trades or part of trades in which no arrangements exist for the effective regulation of wages by collective agreement or otherwise, and wages are exceptionally low. The Committee therefore requests the Government to indicate the measures taken or contemplated to ensure the establishment, in practice, of a minimum wage fixing system in accordance with Article 1 of the Convention. It also requests the Government to indicate to what extent the employers' and workers' organizations concerned have been fully consulted and associated in equal numbers and on equal terms in the operation of the minimum wage fixing system, as required by Article 3, paragraph 2(2) and (3), of the Convention.

Article 5, in conjunction with point V of the report form. Further to its previous comments, the Committee again requests the Government to provide: (i) the available data on the number and different categories of workers covered by minimum wage provisions; and (ii) other general information on how effect is given to the Convention in practice (for example, the results of inspections carried out (such as the number of violations of minimum wage provisions, the penalties imposed, etc.)).

[The Government is asked to report in detail in 2000.]