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

Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery (Agriculture) Convention, 1951 (No. 99) - Djibouti (Ratification: 1978)

The Committee notes the observations of the General Union of Djibouti Workers (UGTD) on the application of the Convention, which were received on 23 August 2007 and transmitted to the Government on 21 September 2007. No reply has so far been received from the Government. The UGTD states that there is no longer a means to set minimum wages in the agricultural sector, as the Labour Code currently in force (Act No. 133/AN/05/5ème L) does not provide for the system of guaranteed interoccupational minimum wage (SMIG) and leaves the fixing of wage levels to individual agreement or collective bargaining. According to the UGTD, the dismantling of the SMIG has left workers without any safeguard with respect to income protection and has accentuated the sentiment of insecurity among the working people. The Committee requests the Government to transmit any comments it may wish to make in reply to the observations of the UGTD.

In addition, the Committee refers to the comments made under Convention No. 26.