Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2019, published 109th ILC session (2021)

Minimum Wage Fixing Convention, 1970 (No. 131) - New Caledonia

Articles 1 and 4 of the Convention. Coverage of the minimum wage. Adjustment of the minimum wage. Further to its previous comments on section R. 255-1 of the Labour Code, which provides that workers under 16 years of age may receive remuneration below the guaranteed minimum wage (SMG), the Committee notes that section 63 of the Territorial Interoccupational Agreement provides that wherever young workers under 18 years of age regularly perform work normally undertaken by adults under equal conditions of performance, productivity and quality, they are paid according to the wage scale established for adult employees performing the same work. The Committee also notes the information provided by the Government in its report on the mechanism for reassessing the level of the SMG and making the corresponding adjustments.