Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26) - Morocco (Ratification: 1958)

The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its latest reports and the table showing developments in the minimum salary since 1981. The Committee also notes the text of Decree No. 2.96.678 of 11 November 1996 adjusting the minimum salary upward.

Article 4, paragraph 1, of the Convention (read in conjunction with Article 5 and Part V of the report form). Further to its earlier comments, the Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its latest report that 241 labour inspection officials monitor the application of labour legislation in general and the legislative and regulatory texts on salaries in particular on all sectors of economic activity with the exception of agriculture. It also notes that the violations noted by the officials are recorded in reports to the competent judicial courts. The Government adds that in the period between 1 July 1997 and 31 March 1999, 4,109 violations of the legal provisions on minimum wage were recorded. The Committee notes, however, that the Government has not specified the sanctions that have been imposed for these violations and has not communicated the statistical data available regarding the number of workers covered by the minimum wage regulation as requested by the Committee in its previous comments. The Committee hopes that the Government will supply this information with its next report.