Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2019, published 109th ILC session (2021)

Senegal

Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26) (Ratification: 1960)
Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery (Agriculture) Convention, 1951 (No. 99) (Ratification: 1962)

Article 3 of Convention No. 26 and Article 3 of Convention No. 99. Minimum wage-fixing machinery. Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes the information provided in the Government’s report. It also notes that, according to the third periodic report submitted by Senegal under articles 16 and 17 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in November 2018: (i) on 30 April 2018, the social partners concluded a Memorandum of Understanding on the rates of the guaranteed inter-occupational minimum wage (SMIG) and of the guaranteed agricultural minimum wage (SMAG) and has requested the competent authority, in accordance with section L.109 of the Labour Code, to set these rates by decree; and (ii) the draft decree is in the process of adoption (E/C.12/SEC/3, paragraph 37). The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the adoption of this decree.