1. Any member of the International Labour Organization ratifying this Convention undertakes to establish or maintain methods for setting minimum wage rates for workers employed in industries or parts thereof Industries (particularly in the home-based industries) where there is no effective wage-setting regime through a collective contract or otherwise and where wages are exceptionally low ¹ .

2. The word "industries" for the purposes of this Agreement includes the processing and trade industries.

Each member ratifying this Convention shall have the freedom to decide, after consultation with the employers'and workers' organisations, whether it exists for the industry or part thereof, to which industries or parts thereof, and in In particular to which industries in the home or parts of those industries will be applied the methods of fixing the minimum wages provided for in Art. 1 ¹ .

1. Each member ratifying this Convention shall have the freedom to determine the methods of fixing minimum wages and the details of their application.

2. However,

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Before applying the methods to a specific industry or part of industry, representatives of the employers and workers concerned, including representatives of their respective organisations, if such organisations exist, shall be Consulted, as well as any other persons, specially qualified in this regard by their profession or office, to which the competent authority would consider appropriate;

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Employers and interested workers will be required to participate in the application of the methods, in the form and to the extent that may be determined by national legislation, but in all cases in equal numbers and on an equal footing;

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The minimum wage rates which have been fixed shall be compulsory for the employers and workers concerned; they shall not be lowered by them or by individual agreement, nor, except in general or specific authorisation by the competent authority, By collective contract.

1. Any member ratifying this Convention shall take the necessary measures, by means of a system of control and sanctions, so that, on the one hand, interested employers and workers are aware of the minimum wage rates in And that, on the other hand, the salaries actually paid are not less than the applicable minimum rates ¹ .

(2) Any worker to whom the minimum rates are applicable and who has received salaries below those rates must have the right, by judicial or other legal means, to recover the amount of the sum remaining due, within the time limit which may Be laid down by national legislation.

Any member ratifying this Convention shall submit each year to the International Labour Office a general statement giving the list of industries or parts of industries in which methods of fixation have been applied Minimum wages and the methods of application of these methods and their results. This presentation will include summary information on the approximate numbers of workers subject to this regulation, the minimum wage rates fixed and, where appropriate, the other most important measures relating to minimum wages.

The official ratifications of this Convention, under the conditions established by the Constitution of the International Labour Organization, shall be communicated to and registered by the Director General of the International Labour Office.

(1) This Convention shall only bind the members of the International Labour Organization whose ratification has been registered with the International Labour Office.

2. It shall enter into force twelve months after the ratifications of two members have been registered by the Director General.

3. Thereafter, this Convention shall enter into force for each member twelve months after the date on which its ratification has been registered.

As soon as the ratifications of two members of the International Labour Organization have been registered with the International Labour Office, the Director-General of the International Labour Office will notify all members of the The International Labour Organization. It shall also notify them of the registration of ratifications which will subsequently be communicated to it by all other members of the Organization.

1. Any member who has ratified this Convention may denounce it at the expiration of a period of ten years after the date of the initial implementation of the Convention by means of an act communicated to the Director General of the International Labour Office, And by registered him. The denunciation shall take effect only one year after being registered at the International Labour Office.

2. Any member who has ratified this Agreement which, within one year after the expiration of the ten-year period referred to in the preceding paragraph, shall not make use of the right of denunciation provided for in this Article shall be bound For a further period of five years and thereafter may terminate this Agreement at the expiration of each five-year period under the conditions set out in this Article.

Whenever it deems it necessary, the Governing Council of the International Labour Office shall submit to the General Conference a report on the application of this Convention and shall consider whether it should be included in the agenda Conference the question of its total or partial revision.

Both the English and French texts of this Agreement shall prevail.

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