Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1987, published 74th ILC session (1987)

Protection of Wages Convention, 1949 (No. 95) - Costa Rica (Ratification: 1960)

Article 3, paragraph 1, of the Convention. In its previous comments the Committee requested the Government to take the necessary steps to revise section 165 of the Labour Code, which provides in paragraph 3 that workers on coffee plantations may receive coupons instead of legal tender, provided that they have to be changed into money within a week. The Committee considers that, although the Government states that the spirit of this provision is to assist in controlling the quantity of money carried about by the workers in such plantations, the text of the said section 165 as it is written is not clear in this respect and does not conform to the provisions of Article 3 of the Convention which provide that wages payable in money shall be paid only in legal tender. Consequently, while noting that the Legal Affairs Committee of the Assembly has not handed down a decision in this connection, the Committee once again requests the Government to continue taking the necessary steps to ensure the implementation of this Article of the Convention.