Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2012, published 102nd ILC session (2013)

Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26) - Norway (Ratification: 1933)

Articles 1 and 3 of the Convention. Minimum wage fixing machinery. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in its report concerning the latest amendments, introduced in 2008 and 2009, to the General Application Act No. 58 of 4 June 1993 with a view to strengthening compliance, for instance by obliging main contractors to include clauses in contracts with subcontractors to ensure that the employees of the subcontractors enjoy pay and working conditions in line with the applicable provisions of the collective agreement which has been made generally applicable by decision of the Wage Committee (or Tariff Board). The Committee also notes the Government’s indications that after the EU enlargement in 2004 labour migration has increased significantly leading to an extended use of the General Application Act. Consequently, in the last three years, the Wage Committee decided to extend the application of parts of the collective agreements for the engineering industry, the agriculture and horticulture sector, and the cleaning sector. While noting these developments, the Committee requests the Government to provide information on the number and regulation of minimum pay levels of workers who are not covered by collectively agreed minimum wages. It also requests the Government to provide information on any new decisions of the Wage Committee making parts of collective agreements generally applicable and other relevant developments (for instance, reports or studies evaluating the present system of extension of collective agreements, any follow-up action with respect to proposals for the introduction of a statutory national minimum wage, etc.).