Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2012, published 102nd ILC session (2013)

Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery (Agriculture) Convention, 1951 (No. 99) - Czechia (Ratification: 1993)

Article 3 of the Convention. Nature and form of minimum wage fixing machinery. Differentiated minimum wage rates on the basis of age or disability. The Committee requests the Government to refer to the comments made in 2011 concerning the application of Articles 1(1) and 3(2) of the Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26). In this connection, the Committee understands that following tripartite consultations, the Government decided in December 2011 not to increase the national minimum wage rate in view of the current economic situation. The Committee requests the Government to keep the Office informed of any further developments concerning the readjustment of the minimum wage.

Moreover, the Committee wishes to draw the Government’s attention once more to the ILO Governing Body’s decision to classify Conventions Nos 26 and 99 among the instruments which are no longer fully up to date and to invite the States parties to these Conventions to contemplate ratifying the Minimum Wage Fixing Convention, 1970 (No. 131). The Committee considers that the ratification of Convention No. 131 is all the more advisable as the Czech Republic has already a statutory minimum wage of general application (and not only minimum wages for those workers employed in exceptionally low-paid trades where no arrangements for collectively agreed wages exist, as prescribed by Convention No. 26) and its legislation appears to broadly reflect the requirements of that Convention. The Committee requests the Government to keep the Office informed of any decision taken in this regard.