Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2007, published 97th ILC session (2008)

Protection of Wages Convention, 1949 (No. 95) - Cameroon (Ratification: 1960)

The Committee notes the observations received on 21 August 2007 from the General Union of Cameroon Workers (UGTC) concerning the application of the Convention. It notes that, according to the UGTC, the workers of the companies LABOGENIE and MATGENIE, and those employed by the Chamber of Agriculture, Fishing and Stock Raising, are several months in arrears with their wages. Furthermore, the pay claims of the workers of CAMPOST, CAMTEL and FEICOM, firms that are being wound up, have not been settled. The UGTC also indicates that public employees’ wages were reduced by 70 per cent in 1993 and have not been increased since, despite requests from the unions. The Committee requests the Government to provide all relevant information in response to the UGTC’s observations.

The Government is also asked to reply to the direct request of 2006, which likewise raised matters about wage arrears, particularly in the teaching sector, as well as the issue of wage deductions.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2008.]