Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2008, published 98th ILC session (2009)

Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery (Agriculture) Convention, 1951 (No. 99) - Paraguay (Ratification: 1964)

The Committee notes with regret 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:

The Committee notes Decree No. 11.137/07 dated 24 October 2007 of the National Minimum Wage Council (CONASAM) which raises the minimum wage by 10 per cent for workers in the private sector. The Committee notes, however, that this decree establishes no minimum wage applicable to the agricultural sector. The Committee understands that minimum wage rates for this sector were last adjusted in 1997 by Decree No. 16037 of 15 January 1997 and by resolutions Nos 20 and 25 of 24 January 1997. The Committee requests the Government to indicate in its next report the measures adopted or envisaged to readjust these rates.

Furthermore, the Committee requests the Government to make every effort to collect and communicate in its next report detailed information on the application of the Convention in practice, in conformity with Article 5 and Part V of the report form and, in particular, to supply statistics on the application of methods of enforcement (violations reported, sanctions imposed, etc.) and copies of court decisions concerning the implementation of minimum wage legislation. The Committee also requests the Government to transmit information on any changes in the situation covered by the representation made under article 24 of the ILO Constitution in 1995 and which was discussed in the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards in 1996.