Kazakh parliament starts working on ratification of two ILO wage conventions
On January 29, the Majilis, lower house of Kazakhstan’s parliament, started working on ratification of two ILO conventions – the Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26) and the Protection of Wages Convention, 1949 (No. 95).
29 January 2014
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Convention No.26 is aimed at securing the right to maintain wage fixing machinery by the authorities.
Each Member of the ILO which ratifies this Convention undertakes to create or maintain machinery whereby minimum rates of wages can be fixed for workers employed in certain of the trades or parts of trades (and in particular in home working trades) in which no arrangements exist for the effective regulation of wages by collective agreement or otherwise and wages are exceptionally low.
The aim of Convention No.95 is to ensure timely payment of wages in money by employers. Wages payable in money shall be paid only in legal tender, and payment in the form of promissory notes, vouchers or coupons, or in any other form alleged to represent legal tender, shall be prohibited. The payment of wages in the form of liquor of high alcoholic content or of noxious drugs shall not be permitted in any circumstances.
At present, the Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention has been ratified by 103 ILO member-states, including CIS member-countries Armenia and Belarus. The Protection of Wages Convention has been ratified by 97 member-states, including such CIS member-countries as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Ukraine.
Source: Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Each Member of the ILO which ratifies this Convention undertakes to create or maintain machinery whereby minimum rates of wages can be fixed for workers employed in certain of the trades or parts of trades (and in particular in home working trades) in which no arrangements exist for the effective regulation of wages by collective agreement or otherwise and wages are exceptionally low.
The aim of Convention No.95 is to ensure timely payment of wages in money by employers. Wages payable in money shall be paid only in legal tender, and payment in the form of promissory notes, vouchers or coupons, or in any other form alleged to represent legal tender, shall be prohibited. The payment of wages in the form of liquor of high alcoholic content or of noxious drugs shall not be permitted in any circumstances.
At present, the Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention has been ratified by 103 ILO member-states, including CIS member-countries Armenia and Belarus. The Protection of Wages Convention has been ratified by 97 member-states, including such CIS member-countries as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Ukraine.
Source: Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan