Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2016, published 106th ILC session (2017)

Convention concerning Statistics of Wages and Hours of Work, 1938 (No. 63) - St Helena

St Helena

Part I of the Convention. Statistics relating to wages and hours of work. The Committee notes that the Government appended a copy of the Statistical Yearbook 2013/2014 to its report, in reply to its previous comments. The Committee also notes that the said yearbook, which contains statistics from 1999 onwards, does not include statistics on hours of work or wages for the economy as a whole or separately for agriculture, mining, or manufacturing. As regards statistics on wages, only the Saint Helena government pay scale is included. Moreover, statistics on working time and earnings of employees are not regularly submitted to the ILO Department of Statistics via its annual questionnaire. The Committee requests that the Government provide statistical and methodological information on wages and hours of work.

The Committee notes the recommendations of the Standards Review Mechanism Tripartite Working Group and the corresponding decision of the Governing Body at its 328th Session in October–November 2016 (GB.328/LILS/2/1) calling upon the Office to commence follow-up with member States that are still bound by the Convention, encouraging them to ratify the Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160), as the most up-to-date instrument in this area, and resulting in the automatic denunciation of Convention No. 63. The Committee reminds the Government of the availability of ILO technical assistance in this regards.