Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Convention concerning Statistics of Wages and Hours of Work, 1938 (No. 63) - Nicaragua (Ratification: 1981)

Articles 1 and 5 of the Convention. Compilation, publication and communication of statistics relating to wages and hours of work. The Committee takes note of the Government’s report which was received at the ILO on 31 August 2010. In its previous comments, the Committee had noted that all of the statistics required by the Convention had been compiled, published and transmitted to the ILO, including the statistics on hours worked, required under Article 5. The Committee notes that the latest report by the Government does not contain any new information concerning statistics on hours of work and/or wages. Furthermore, while the required information was regularly provided to the ILO in the past, no updates regarding statistics of average hours actually worked have been supplied since 2006 (the latest available data refer to 2002). Given the above, the Committee requests the Government to supply to the ILO updated statistics on both hours of work and wages as soon as these data become available.

In this regard, the Committee draws the Government’s attention to Resolution I adopted by the 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians concerning the measurement of working time. This document defines new concepts and measures in this area of statistics and can be accessed at the following link: http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---stat/documents/normativeinstrument/wcms_112455.pdf.