Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26) - Myanmar (Ratification: 1954)

Articles 1 and 3 of the Convention. Minimum wage fixing machinery. The Committee notes that the Government is still not in a position to indicate any progress on a number of issues raised in previous comments, including the possible extension of minimum wage protection to industrial sectors other than the rice-milling and cigar- and cheroot-rolling industries, the revision of the minimum wage rates applicable in those sectors, the establishment of new minimum wage councils, the collection of statistical data on the evolution of economic indicators, such as the inflation rate, in recent years compared to the evolution of minimum wage levels, and the effective enforcement of the minimum wage legislation. In its last report, the Government merely indicates that existing labour laws are currently under review to ensure compliance with the Constitution and that any new draft legislation will eventually be submitted to the Parliament. Recalling the Government’s earlier statements that the minimum wage rates in force were no longer in line with market wages and needed readjustment, and also that the determination of minimum wages for the oil and garment industries was under consideration, the Committee asks the Government to take prompt action in this direction and to keep the Office informed of any concrete results.