Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

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

Article 12(1) of the Convention. Payment of wages at regular intervals – Wage arrears situation. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in two separate communications dated 13 November 2012 and 20 February 2013 concerning inspection visits related to the timely payment of wages in enterprises with accumulated wage arrears. While noting these inspection results, the Committee requests the Government to provide in its next report full particulars on the different points raised in the observation that the Committee formulated in 2012, especially as regards the revision of the bankruptcy law, the establishment of a wage guarantee institution, the eradication of the practice of “envelope wages”, the improvement of data collection and the reinforcement of the human resources of the labour inspectorate.