Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2006, published 96th ILC session (2007)

Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160) - Switzerland (Ratification: 1987)

1. Further to its observation, the Committee notes, in reply to its request concerning the obligation deriving from Article 16, paragraph 4, of the Convention, the indication that it has not been possible to conduct the biennial survey of labour costs envisaged in the global system of statistics of wages and labour costs (Article 11) due to lack of personnel, but that it is nevertheless planned to carry out a pilot survey of labour costs in parallel to the 2006 survey of the structure of wages with a view to supplementing the estimates of labour costs based on existing information. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would keep the Office informed of any development in this respect.

2. The Committee notes that the Government maintains, for agriculture, the limitation on the scope of application of Articles 9 and 10, authorized under Article 17, on the grounds that the data available on agricultural wages are not sufficiently representative of wages in the agricultural sector, which is characterized by a very high number of small farms worked by their owners.