Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2002, published 91st ILC session (2003)

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

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Article 1 of the Convention, read in conjunction with Article 3. The Committee notes the Government’s statement to the effect that the Act of 23 December 1994 abolished the minimum social wage including family allowances, given that this type of minimum social wage is no longer needed following the introduction of a guaranteed minimum income which should take account more closely of the composition of individual workers’ households.

The Committee requests the Government to indicate to what extent employers’ and workers’ organizations were consulted before this decision was taken.

  Article 5 (read in conjunction with Part V of the report form). The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide information on the practical application of the Convention, for example: (i) the minimum wage rates in force; (ii) available data on the number and various categories of workers covered by the minimum wage regulations; and (iii) the results of any inspections carried out (for example, any violations noted, sanctions imposed, etc.).