Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2012, Publicación: 102ª reunión CIT (2013)

Convenio sobre los métodos para la fijación de salarios mínimos (agricultura), 1951 (núm. 99) - Paraguay (Ratificación : 1964)

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Article 5 of the Convention and Part V of the report form. Practical application. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that the minimum wage for agricultural workers was last increased by ten per cent by Resolution MJT–509/11 of 27 April 2011, and is now set at 589,256 Paraguay guaraníes (PYG) (approximately US$132) per month or PYG22,664 (approximately $5) per day for workers in category “A” and at PYG810,115 (approximately $182) per month or PYG31,158 (approximately $7) per day for workers in category “B”. It also notes the results of the inspection visits carried out in June 2011 in the Chaco region in the framework of the National Campaign of Decent Work for All, undertaken by the Ministry of Justice and Labour with the technical assistance of the International Labour Office. According to these results, 62 enterprises were inspected, concerning 803 workers, and the percentage of compliance with the minimum wage legislation was 95 per cent. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would continue to provide up-to-date information on the effect given to the Convention in practice. In addition, the Committee requests the Government to refer to its comments made under the Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26).