The Committee urges the State party to take the necessary measures in order to ensure that the minimum wage enables workers and their families to enjoy an adequate standard of living and that the minimum wage standard is effectively enforced.

It was below the minimum wage, OK? And this is well documented.

99. The Wages Boards Ordinance does not specify the criteria that should be taken into account in the determination of initial minimum wages.

The level of the minimum wage is guaranteed by the State.

However, minimum wages exist.

The Committee urges the State party to continue to take necessary measures to ensure that the minimum wage enables workers and their families to enjoy an adequate standard of living and that the minimum wage standard is effectively enforced, particularly in rural areas and in western areas.

(c) The need for national practices to meet internationally agreed minimum standards

Thus, a uniform minimum monthly wage rate is established nationwide and it is mandatory for all employers, irrespective of their status and the form of property.

This amendatory law aims to minimize rampant violations of the minimum wage and other labour standards.

Citizens performing alternative (labour) service receive 85 per cent of their pay, but no less than the State established minimum for subsistence (art. 27).

When establishing the minimum monthly wage rate in the country, note is taken of the subsistence minimum established by the state at the given period of time.

Minimal standards

VI. The minimum wages which workers must enjoy shall be general or occupational.

social minimum

living standards minimum

It has always established a minimum level, guaranteed by the State, of total or part of remuneration for work.

The adoption of such rules had not led to the lowering of any standards and in many States prisoners were accorded treatment far above the minimum standard.

While most countries apply the Standard Minimum Rules to a large extent, the lack of appropriate funds for prison administration and prison management causes severe problems in meeting minimum standards for prisoners in several other countries.

The main factor influencing the amount of the minimum monthly wage is the possibilities of the national budget that determine the increase in the minimum monthly wage of employees working at institutions financed from the national budget.

Workers require protection and States can accept and implement minimum internationally agreed labour standards which set minimum levels of protection below which no national law or practice should fall.

The minimum salary of a teacher with the lowest professional qualifications must not be below the amount that is equal to two minimum monthly salaries.

In no case may wages be less than the minimum wages fixed for workers in general in the Federal District and the States of the Republic.

The minimum allowable wage for foreign domestic helpers

(d) The minimum nationwide wage for infant care

Monitoring of compliance with labour standards, and in particular those relating to minimum wages, is the responsibility of the labour authorities.

Minimum humanitarian standards

As a result, substandard wages are virtually non existent today.

As mentioned earlier, monitoring of compliance with labour standards, and in particular those relating to minimum wages, is the responsibility of the labour authorities.

The purpose of establishing the minimum monthly wage is to guarantee at least the survival minimum to all employees those working in the private sector, as well as those employed in the public sector.

Minimum standard of liability

104. Tunisia has long adhered to the principle of fixing minimum wages, and ratified ILO Convention No. 26, concerning the Creation of Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery, in 1957, and Convention No. 99, concerning Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery in Agriculture, in 1959.

In accordance with Article 67 of the Convention of the International Labour Organisation On Social Insurance Minimum Standards, the maternity benefit amount in 2001 two times exceeded the minimum norms prescribed by the Convention (see the table).

The minimum wage

H. Minimum humanitarian standards fundamental standards of humanity

Part of the prospective reform of family law would be to adopt a consistent minimum age of eligibility, in keeping with appropriate international standards.

The given decision served as the basis for formulating and adopting Regulation of the CM No. 103 On Minimum Wages (of 6 March 2001) that prescribed that as of 1 July 2001 the minimum monthly wages in the country would be LVL 60 (the minimum per hourly tariff rate LVL 0.355).

Pursuant to Article 67 of the 102nd Convention of the International Labour Organization the unemployment benefit is below the minimum norms prescribed by the Convention (see the table).

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II. INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MINIMUM HUMANITARIAN STANDARDS

1. This is the first full report that I submit to the General Assembly as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights pursuant to Assembly resolution 48 141.

The training will lead to certification that will set minimum standards for purchasing specialists in the United Nations system.

In most countries, a basic social protection floor which can help countries to mitigate the negative effects of shocks and prevent people from falling deeper into poverty is affordable. However, low income and least developed countries need assistance in raising the floor to more acceptable levels.

(a) Adjustment of the SMIG and SMAG

The Committee recommends that the State party ratify ILO Convention No. 131 (1970) concerning Minimum Wage Fixing, with Special Reference to Developing Countries.

The State Labour Inspection also exercises supervision in the area of remuneration for work, including the minimum wages.