Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2021, published 110th ILC session (2022)

Protection of Wages Convention, 1949 (No. 95) - Tajikistan (Ratification: 1993)

Article 7(2) of the Convention. Works stores. The Committee notes that the Government’s report does not contain information in response to its previous request on this issue. The Committee therefore requests the Government once again to provide information on the measures adopted with the object of ensuring that goods at work stores are sold, and services provided at fair and reasonable prices, or that stores established and services operated by the employer are not operated for the purpose of securing a profit, but for the benefit of the workers concerned, as required by this Article of the Convention.

Articles 12 and 15(b). Regular payment of wages. Control of compliance. Further to its previous comments concerning wage arrears in the country, the Committee notes that the Government indicates that the total amount of arrears of wages as of 1 May 2020, including arrears from previous years, increased by 78.8 per cent compared to the same period in 2019. The Government further indicates that local government authorities have adopted decisions and that the leaders of provinces, towns and districts have adopted decrees to establish the “Executive Unit for the Elimination of Wage Arrears”. Concerning enforcement activities, the Committee notes that the Government’s report does not contain information in response to its previous request. Taking note with concern of the continued situation of wage arrears in the country and its dramatic increase in 2020, the Committee requests the Government to step up its efforts to address this issue and to provide information on the results of the measures adopted and envisaged in this regard. The Committee also requests once again the Government to provide information on the number of inspection visits undertaken to ensure compliance with the timely payment of wages by sector, the number of cases of non-compliance detected and the measures taken to settle all outstanding payments, including adequate penalties or other appropriate remedies.

Articles 14(b) and 15(d). Wage statements and record-keeping. Further to its previous comments requesting the Government to indicate how effect is given to these provisions, the Committee notes that the Government’s report is silent on this issue. The Committee therefore once again requests the Government to: (i) specify how it is ensured that workers are informed at the time of each payment of the particulars of their wages for the period concerned, for example by means of payslips (Article 14(b)), and (ii) indicate any legislative or administrative provisions regulating the form and manner in which payroll records must be kept, as well as the specific wage particulars to be shown in those records (Article 15(d)).

[The Government is asked to reply in full to the present comments in 2022.]