Their jobs are being moved to places with lower wages, lower business taxes and greater freedom to pollute.

292. The Committee is concerned that the information provided demonstrates that women are still employed in lower paid and lower skilled work.

The figures showed that among salaried employees the salaries of women were 10.2 below those of men in 1999, but that by 2001 the differential had decreased to 5.7 .

Thus, it is difficult to state explicitly that women apos s lower wages mean discrimination.

Even though the younger workforce is ready to work for lower wages, the existing system is not attractive.

Once again it is rural women who earn the least while most male earnings fall in the range from 0.5 up to two minimum monthly wages (23.2 ), women account for 20.8 per cent in this range and are found in greater numbers in the group receiving no payment. They account for 14.4 per cent of this latter group, while the figure for men is 9.3 per cent.

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

Less than 10 per cent of the labour force is engaged in wage employment.

65. The lower wages of women vis à vis men are a persistent phenomenon, due mainly to the employment of women in less remunerated sectors of the economy.

73. Regarding the implementation of article 7 of the Covenant, the Committee is most concerned that, despite the existence of legislation governing the minimum wage, many workers perhaps even as many as 50 per cent do not earn that wage.

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.

The involvement of private investment is still relatively low.

In many health care settings, female health care providers face higher workloads, lower salaries, and fewer opportunities for career advancement and decision making.

Malaysian manufacturing industries have expanded to Indonesia and Viet Nam, where wages are lower.

In the said case the monthly wage shall not be less than the minimum wage.

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The low participation of women in employment is related both to restricted opportunities of part time employment and to conditions of small differentiation in salary levels.

The minimum wage

Note that women pensioners are in a more difficult position in relation to men, because their pensions are lower, the reason for this being their employment at lower paid positions.

As regards the question of whether any wage earners remain outside the protection of the system of minimum wages described above, in law or in fact, it should be pointed out, on the one hand, that Article 10 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States provides that

The minimum wage in Poland is so low that work of good quality is generally not remunerated below the minimum wage level.

In the given case the monthly wage of the employee shall not be below the minimum wage .

However, minimum wages exist.

(a) Adjustment of the SMIG and SMAG

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Relation of the minimum wage to an average wage in

This is expected to increase the percentage of wage earners substantially.

Common staff costs were lower than in 2002 for reasons of lower staff turnover.

In other words, under national systems this resulted in less take home pay for employees without dependants.

The general wage pattern in this sector is that of a large number of workers earning 10 to 20 per cent more than in enterprises of the same branch in the private sector.

Daily SMAG

Minimum annual wage

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Minimum wage index

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The minimum wage is determined for the lowest skilled labour in full time normal working conditions.

As regards the total numbers of persons receiving minimum wages in the formal private sector of the economy, in May 2004, out of 11.75 million workers paying contributions to the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), 913,741 workers, or 7.9 of the total, were receiving minimum wages 30.2 were receiving more than the minimum wage but not more than twice that amount, while the remaining 61.8 were receiving more than twice the minimum wage.

Development of average and minimum wages

Companies cannot compete with firms that pay much lower wage rates on neighboring islands. A rule of thumb is that a minimum wage that is above 55 of the median wage will impede job creation (and economic growth)

With the exception of the forced or compulsory labour provided for in article 10 of this Convention, forced or compulsory labour of all kinds shall be remunerated in cash at rates not less than those prevailing for similar kinds of work either in the district in which the labour is employed or in the district from which the labour is recruited, whichever may be the higher.

When investors make less risky loans, they require a lower risk premium , thereby reducing the cost of borrowing to the borrower.

This division is transferred to the sphere of occupational activity and to cultural norms, according to which lower wages for women are considered to be justified.

Movements in minimum wages

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