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

Minimum Wage Fixing Convention, 1970 (No. 131) - Lithuania (Ratification: 1994)

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

Article 5 of the Convention and point V of the report form. The Committee notes, in the consolidated report of the State Labour Inspection (April-December 1997), a high rate (47.5 per cent) of violations in remuneration among the undertakings inspected (1,422 out of 3,000). It also notes a number of delayed payments of wages. The Committee requests the Government to provide further information and explanations on these cases of non-observance of the minimum wage regulations and to indicate the measures taken or envisaged to rectify this situation by ensuring an adequate enforcement of the minimum wage regulations.

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