Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1989, published 76th ILC session (1989)

Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26) - Colombia (Ratification: 1933)

The Committee notes with interest the information provided by the Government in its reports of 1986, 1987 and 1988, concerning the minimum wage rates fixed for these years. The Committee also notes that the Government intends to restructure the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, devoting particular attention to labour inspection services.

The Committee also notes the information supplied by the Government concerning home work and the decision handed down in 1912 by the Supreme Court of Justice with regard to work at home. The Committee hopes that the Government will provide information about more recent court decisions concerning work at home.

Furthermore, the Committee notes that the statistical data provided by the Government concern the sums paid during the period September to October 1987 following the settlement of individual complaints and to the number of undertakings visited that received warnings for infringements of certain labour standards, including failure to pay wages on the date due. However, the Committee found no data on the activities of the labour inspectorate relating to undertakings visited and at which infringements of minimum wage standards were found to have occurred. Further to its previous comments, the Committee requests the Government to supply statistics data on the number of workers covered by the minimum wage system or of those whose wages have been determined by collective agreement (Article 2 of the Convention), as well as information on the activities of the labour inspectorate in connection with the application of this Convention (Article 5 and Part V of the report form). In this connection, the Committee also hopes that the Government will provide information in due course on the changes affecting the Ministry of Labour and Social Security and, in particular, on measures affecting labour inspection with regard to the application of this Convention.