The Law of Ukraine

On the Ratification of the Convention of the International Labor
Organization (ILO) No. 131 Concerning Minimum Wage
Fixing, with Special Reference to Developing Countries

Date of entry into force:
November 19, 2005

The present Law ratifies the Convention of the International Labor Organization (ILO) No. 131 Concerning Minimum Wage Fixing, with Special Reference to Developing Countries (hereinafter referred to as the Convention) adopted at the 54th General Session of the Conference of the International Labor Organization on June 22, 1970.

According to the present Convention, each Member of the International Labor Organization which ratifies this Convention shall undertake to establish a system of minimum wages which shall cover all groups of wage earners whose terms of employment shall be such that coverage would be appropriate.

The competent authority in each country shall, in agreement or after broad consultations with the representative organizations of employers and workers concerned, where such exist, determine the groups of wage earners to be covered.

Minimum wages shall have the force of law and shall not be subject to abatement, and failure to apply them shall make the individual or individuals concerned liable to appropriate penal or other sanctions.

The elements to be taken into consideration in determining the level of minimum wages shall, so far as possible and appropriate in relation to national practice and conditions, include:
(a) the needs of workers and their families, taking into account the general level of wages in the country, the cost of living or the minimum subsistence level, social security benefits, and the relative living standards of other social groups;

(b) economic factors, including the needed requirements of economic development, levels of labor productivity and the desirability of attaining and maintaining a high level of employment.

Appropriate measures, such as adequate and appropriate inspection reinforced by other necessary measures, shall be taken to ensure the effective application of all provisions relating to minimum wages.

This Convention shall not be regarded as revising any existing Convention.

Any Member of the International Labor Organization which has ratified this Convention may denounce it after the expiration of ten years from the date on which the Convention first comes into force, by an act communicated to the Director-General of the International Labor Office for registration. Such denunciation shall not take effect until one year after the date on which this act on denunciation is registered.

Each Member of the International Labor Organization which has ratified this Convention and which does not, within the year following the expiration of the period of ten years mentioned in the preceding paragraph, exercise the right of denunciation, shall be bound for another period of ten years and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention at the expiration of each period of ten years under the terms provided for in the present Convention.
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