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

Protection of Wages Convention, 1949 (No. 95) - Solomon Islands (Ratification: 1985)

The Committee notes 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:

Repetition

Article 16 of the Convention. Measures giving effect to the provisions of the Convention. The Committee has been drawing the Government’s attention for several years to the fact that certain requirements of the Convention are not reflected in the national legislation and that the mere fact that no problems have so far been encountered in practice does not absolve the Government from its obligation to give specific legislative expression, when necessary, to the standards set out in the Convention. In its last report, the Government indicates that the labour law reform process launched in 2005 is still being pursued in consultation with employers’ and workers’ organizations and with ILO’s technical support. Recalling that there are no specific legal provisions addressing the attachment and assignment of ages (Article 10), the privileged protection of wage claims in the case of the employer’s bankruptcy (Article 11), the payment of wages in regular intervals (Article 12), or the payment of wages on working days and at the workplace (Article 13), the Committee requests the Government to keep the Office informed of any progress made in this regard and to transmit a copy of the revised legislation once it has been adopted.

Part V of the report form. Application in practice. The Committee requests the Government to provide general information on the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice, including, for example, information concerning the number of workers covered by the relevant legislation, extracts from reports of the inspection services indicating the number and nature of violations reported and penalties imposed and any difficulties experienced in the application of the Convention.