The draft Report of the Study on the Introduction of a National Minimum Wage in the private sector will be subject to discussion during a five-day workshop to be organised by the Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment, from 13 to 17 October.
The document which has been prepared by an International Labour Organisation (ILO) consultant Mr François Eyraud, will be presented to the tripartite constituents namely representatives of Employer’s, Worker’s and Government with a view to examine the recommendations contained in the draft Report.
This was announced by the Minister of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment, Mr Shakeel Mohamed at a press conference on September 22 in Port Louis.
Taking into consideration that the existing Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery is rather complex with two complementary minimum wage support systems, namely, the Remuneration Order System and the Annual Salary Compensation, the draft report recommends that it is not advisable to add a new system that will render the mechanism very complex to manage and coordinate. It also provides for the salary fixing machinery to be replaced by a simple, coherent and efficient system.
The minimum wage is a labour market mechanism used in majority of countries worldwide to assess minimum salary payable to employees. A total of 116 member States have ratified one or both Conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on minimum wage fixing and many other countries have established minimum wage fixing procedures even though they have not ratified the Conventions.
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