Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2017, published 107th ILC session (2018)

Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26) - Burundi (Ratification: 1963)

The Committee notes the observations of the Trade Union Confederation of Burundi (COSYBU), received in 2015, requesting once again the revision of the inter-occupational guaranteed minimum wage (SMIG), in the light of the cost of living.

Article 3 of the Convention. Operation of the minimum wage-fixing machinery. Further to its previous comments in this respect, the Committee notes the Government’s reiteration in its report that the matter of readjusting the minimum wage will be submitted to the social partners, as part of the ongoing revision of the Labour Code. However, pending the receipt of information on progress made in this respect, the Committee is bound to note with concern that the last decree fixing the SMIG was issued in 1988. It therefore urges the Government to take all the necessary measures to immediately reactivate the minimum wage review process, as provided for in section 249 of the Labour Code (annual revision by the National Labour Council), and to carry out a readjustment of the SMIG in the light of this review.

[The Government is asked to reply in full to the present comments in 2018.]