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

Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26) - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (Ratification: 1944)

The Committee notes the detailed information provided by the Government and, in particular, the amendment to the Organic Labour Act (LOT) of 1997, respecting the minimum wage-fixing machinery, which established a National Tripartite Committee on 8 January 1998 to fix and revise minimum wages in January of each year, taking into account such variables as the cost of the family shopping basket.

The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide information, in conformity with Article 5 of the Convention, read in conjunction with point V of the report form, in respect of the functioning of the National Tripartite Committee and other relevant data in respect of the practical application of the Convention, for example: (i) the development of minimum rates of wages in force; (ii) the available statistical data in respect of the number and different categories of workers subjected to the minimum rates of wages regulations; and (iii) the results of inspections carried out (for example, the violations observed, sanctions imposed, etc.).