Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1997, published 86th ILC session (1998)

Minimum Wage Fixing Convention, 1970 (No. 131) - Uruguay (Ratification: 1977)

Article 4, paragraph 2, read in conjunction with point V of the report form. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the operation, in practice, of the wage councils set up pursuant to Act No. 10449.

Furthermore, the Committee notes the information on the minimum wage rates fixed by sector of activity and category of worker, as well as the statistics concerning the activities of the inspection services. It requests the Government to continue to provide general information on the manner in which the Convention is applied in the country, in accordance with point V of the report form.