Title: Evolution of Rural Wages (Evolución del Salario Rural).
Source: National legislation.
Wages:
This series is not published in the Bulletin.
Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Statistics Department, Sectoral Office of Planning and Budget (Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social, Departamento de Estadística, Oficina Sectorial de Planeamiento y Presupuesto).
Geographical: Whole country.
Industrial: Agriculture and livestock farming.
Occupational: According to the law, workers are divided into two groups: adult workers and minors (under 18 years of age). The group adult workers is classified by different occupations such as foreman, specialized agricultural worker, farm and livestock worker, bailiff, clerk, etc.
Establishment: The series covers establishments of all sizes.
Persons covered: Rural workers employed in agricultural work and livestock farming; field crop and vegetable farm workers, etc.; dairy farm workers; shearers.
The series started in 1923. The periodicity is determined by the dates given in the provisions for regulating rural salaries. The information was published by the country in November 1974 and covered data from 1923 up to that date.
Employment: Not applicable.
Hours of work: Not applicable.
Wages: The data refer to the legal minimum basic wage per day or per month, thereby excluding all types of additional compensation, productivity bonuses or other bonuses and gratuities paid under any other non-obligatory schemes above the established minimum wage. Wages are paid in cash or partly in cash and partly in kind. Payment in kind consists of basic food and housing for workers and family members living with them, the necessary goods for lighting and cleaning of the occupied premises and for the preparation of food. In ILO publications, the data refer to wages per month.
See under Periodicity.
There is a systematic compilation of the statutory provisions on rural wages; the corresponding values of wages in cash and in kind are directly carried over to the values established by these provisions. No estimation or adjustment is made. The national legislation in application which regulates the working and living conditions of rural workers is embodied in Law No. 14.785 of 19 May 1978 and its related Enactment No. 647/978 of 21 November 1978. The statutory provisions concerning registration of the formal obligations imposed under the contractual conditions relating to rural workers are contained in Decree No. 392/980 of 1980 and in complementary provisions such as the Resolutions of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security dating from 1981 and 1985. These texts specify, in detail, the documents which enterprises must use and the formalities which they must follow, depending on the nature of their activities.
Not applicable.
Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social: "Evolución del Salario Rural, Castilla de Actualización" (every three years) (August 1986).
The data in this publication cover the period 1 February 1981 to 1 July 1986.