Niger - Minimum Wages - 2011

01 March 2011.

Decree n. 2006-058, 08 March 2006, fixing the interprofessional minimum wage.

Decree n. 2006-059/PRN/MFP/T, 08 March 2006, fixing the minimum wage for the professional categories regulated by the interprofessional collective agreement.

Labour Code, 19 June 1996 (Ordonnance n. 96-039 du 29 Juin 1996 portant Code du Travail).

An employee or worker is anyone, regardless of sex or nationality, who engages in a professional activity in return for remuneration under the direction and authority of a corporate or individual entity either public or private.

Wage or remuneration is the base salary or minimum salary and all other advantages paid directly or indirectly en specie or in kind by the employer to the worker for the work of the latter.

Decrees taken after the notice of the Consultative Comission of Work will fix the interprofessional minimum wage and, in the lack of collective agreements or when it is not mentioned in it, the minimum wage for each professional category as well as the overtime limits, night work limits, holidays and also eventually seniority and attendance bonuses.

Decrees taken after the notice of the Consultative Comission of Work will fix the interprofessional minimum wage and, in the lack of collective agreements or when it is not mentioned in it, the minimum wage for each professional category as well as the overtime limits, night work limits, holidays and also eventually seniority and attendance bonuses.

The minimum wage (SMIG) fixed over the whole territory of the Republic of Niger on a single ammount of 28.347 francs monthly.

The minimum wage (SMIG) fixed over the whole territory of the Republic of Niger on a single ammount of 28.347 francs monthly.

Decree 2006/059/PRN/MFP/T, 08 March 2006, establishes in its first article different minimum wages for different profession (and also its raises following the grading of categories). However, the minimum wage is never below the wage floor determined by the Decree 2006-058/PRN/MFP/T, that is, 28.347 Francs per month.

Yes. See art. 1 Decree 2006-059. However, never below the minimum wage floor established by the Decree 2006/058.

Domestic Workers minimum wage is the same as that defined as the wage floor, that is 28.347 francs.

The minimum wage (SMIG) fixed over the whole territory of the Republic of Niger on a single ammount of 28.347 francs monthly.

Informations obtained in 23 February 2011. The ammounts mentioned refer to the last importance defined in 08 March 2006.

Payment in kind is, according to art. 158, par. 3, Labour Code, not allowed. However, in the case of the situation ilustrated by the art. 151, from the Labour code, it is possible to have part of the wage paid in kind.
"Wage must be paid in the current legal currency of the country, regardless of all contrary provisions" par.3: "The payment of the whole or part of the wage in kind is forbidenn, except in the case forseen by art. 151, pars. 1 and 2."