Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 2007, publiée 97ème session CIT (2008)

Convention (n° 99) sur les méthodes de fixation des salaires minima (agriculture), 1951 - Seychelles (Ratification: 1978)

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:

Articles 1 and 3 of the Convention. Further to its previous comments on this point, the Committee notes the Government’s indication that the President has recently requested the Government to take the necessary action to set up the minimum wage fixing machinery and establish a national minimum wage, while the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment has been instructed to prepare, in consultation with the employers’ and workers’ organizations and other stakeholders, proposals as to how the system of minimum wages should work. The Committee hopes that the Government will take without any further delay appropriate steps pursuant to section 40(2) of the Employment Act, 1995 to give full effect to the requirements of the Convention, and ventures to suggest that the Government might consider having recourse to the technical assistance of the Office. It asks the Government to keep it informed of any development in this regard.

Article 2. In the absence of any response provided on this matter, the Committee is obliged to renew its request for clarification as to whether any measures, legislative or others, have been taken or are envisaged in order to regulate the partial payment of wages in the form of allowances in kind, which is referred to in section 40(2)(d) of the Employment Act, in accordance with the requirements of this Article of the Convention.

Article 5 and Part V of the report form. The Committee notes the statistical information, supplied by the Government in an earlier report regarding the application of Convention No. 26, concerning the evolution of average monthly earnings during the period 1984–98 by sector and occupational category, including agriculture, forestry and fishing. The Committee requests the Government to continue to collect and communicate up to date information on the occupations and approximate number of workers covered by this Convention and the minimum rates of wages applicable.