Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2004, published 93rd ILC session (2005)

Protection of Wages Convention, 1949 (No. 95) - Niger (Ratification: 1961)

Further to its previous observation concerning the need to repeal section 206 of Decree No. 67-126/MFP/T of 1967 which exempts all agricultural, industrial and commercial undertakings from the obligation to pay at regular intervals not exceeding 15 days the wages of workers employed on a daily or weekly basis, the Committee notes with regret that the Government is still unable to report any concrete progress. The Government had previously transmitted a copy of the records of the March-April 2002 session of the tripartite Labour Consultative Committee in which a draft Decree to regulate the application of the Labour Code was examined, while in its last report the Government confined itself to indicating that the draft Decree in question is still in the process of adoption. The Committee urges the Government to take at last the necessary measures to ensure the application of Article 12, paragraph 1, of the Convention on which it has been commenting for many years and to forward a copy of the Decree regulating the application of the Labour Code once it has been adopted.

The Committee is addressing a request directly to the Government on certain other points.