Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1993, published 80th ILC session (1993)

Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery (Agriculture) Convention, 1951 (No. 99) - Philippines (Ratification: 1953)

The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in reply to its previous comments, concerning, in particular, Article 5 of the Convention.

1. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee again requests the Government to indicate whether any agricultural enterprises have been exempted from the application of Act No. 6727 of 1988 in virtue of its section 5.

2. As regards the applications for exemption from prescribed wage rates under section 122(e) of the Labour Code, as amended by the above Act, the Committee notes the Government's indication that 2,613 such applications were received in total, including agricultural enterprises, between January 1991 and June 1992, and that two cases concerning agricultural enterprises have been appealed to the National Wages and Productivity Commission, contesting the decisions by the Regional Board on such exemption. The Committee requests the Government to continue supplying information on such exemption with separate figures, as much as possible, regarding agriculture and including such information as the number of workers concerned. It also asks the Government to supply, if any, prescribed rules or guidelines concerning the criteria to be applied when granting such exemption.