Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2007, published 97th ILC session (2008)

Protection of Wages Convention, 1949 (No. 95) - Eswatini (Ratification: 1978)

The Committee notes the Government’s report. It also notes that the Employment Act is under review and that detailed information will be communicated once the new legislation has been promulgated. The Committee recalls its previous comments in which it drew attention to section 63 of the Employment Act and the possibility of excluding certain categories of employees, such as domestic employees, from the coverage of Part VI of the Act concerning the protection of wages and hopes that the new legislation will extend its scope of application to all persons to whom wages are paid or payable without exception, as required by Article 2, paragraph 1, of the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to keep it informed of any progress made with regard to the revision of the Employment Act.

Part V of the report form. The Committee notes that the Government has not supplied for a number of years general information on the practical application of the Convention. It would therefore appreciate if the Government would provide together with its next report all available information including, for instance, statistics on the number of workers covered by relevant legislation, copies of collective agreements containing clauses on pay conditions, extracts from reports of the labour inspection services showing the number of wage-related offences observed and the sanctions imposed, any difficulties experienced in the timely payment of wages in the private or public sectors, copies of official studies or surveys addressing wage issues, etc.