Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

Minimum Wage Fixing Convention, 1970 (No. 131) - United Republic of Tanzania (Ratification: 1983)

The Committee notes the Government's short report in reply to its previous comments. This report refers to the Government's intention to establish a Minimum Wage Board and to efforts being made with regard to the formation of an employers' association. It also indicates no information is available regarding development and application of the Convention in Zanzibar.

The Committee wishes, therefore, to recall its previous comments in which it noted, as concerns the application of the Convention in Zanzibar, that section 9 of the Employment (Private Enterprises) Regulation, 1990 (Legal Notice No. 1 of 1991) provides for the declaration of the minimum wage by the Department of Labour from time to time as it may deem necessary, and that section 10 stipulates that the Director shall issue and approve scales of wages after tripartite consultation. The Committee requested the Government to clarify whether the requirement of tripartite consultation under section 10 also covers the declaration of the minimum wage under section 9. It also asked the Government to indicate whether the Minimum Wages Decree (No. 1 of 1935) and the Minimum Wages Order (No. 74 of 1949) are still in force under the new regulation (Legal Notice No. 1 of 1991).

The Committee hopes that the Government will provide information on: (i) the above requested clarifications; (ii) any development in the formation of an employers' association; and (iii) the progress made as concerns the participation of employers' and workers' representatives in the operation of the minimum wage-fixing machinery (Article 4, paragraph 3, of the Convention).

[The Government is asked to report in detail in 2000.]