Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2003, published 92nd ILC session (2004)

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

The Committee notes the Government’s report.

Articles 1 and 3 of the Convention. Further to its previous comments on this point, the Committee notes the Government’s indication that the President has recently requested the Government to take the necessary action to set up the minimum wage fixing machinery and establish a national minimum wage, while the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment has been instructed to prepare, in consultation with the employers’ and workers’ organizations and other stakeholders, proposals as to how the system of minimum wages should work. The Committee hopes that the Government will take, without any further delay, appropriate steps pursuant to section 40(2) of the Employment Act, 1995 to give full effect to the requirements of the Convention, and ventures to suggest that the Government might envisage having recourse to the technical assistance of the Office. It asks the Government to keep it informed of any development in this regard.

Article 5 and Part V of the report form. The Committee notes that in its previous report the Government provided statistical data on the evolution of average monthly earnings during the period 1984-98 by sector and occupational category. Recalling that the fundamental objective of the Convention is to ensure to workers a minimum wage which mirrors the economic and social realities prevailing in the country and which can provide a decent standard of living for them and their families, the Committee wishes the Government to continue supplying information on the evolution of wage levels practised in the public and private sectors.