No. 99 - Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery (Agriculture), 1951

Provisions

• Ratifying countries are to create or maintain adequate machinery for fixing minimum wage rates for people employed in agriculture and related occupations.
• The precise undertakings, occupations and categories of persons covered are to be determined after consulting with the most representative organisations of employers and workers concerned.
• The employers and workers concerned are to take part in, or be consulted about, the operation of the minimum wage fixing machinery, on a basis of complete equality.
• Minimum wage rates that have been fixed are binding on both employers and workers and not able to be abated.
• Ratifying countries are to implement measures for supervision, inspection and sanctions to ensure that the wages paid are not less than the minimum rate.
• A worker who is paid less than the minimum rate is entitled to take proceedings to recover the underpaid amount.

Administered by

Department of Labour

• Employment Relations Act 2000
• Minimum Wage Act 1983
• Minimum Wage Order 2008

How New Zealand implements it

• See Convention 26 for details.

This Convention is not applicable to Tokelau.

Ratified - 1 July 1952

Total ratifications - 52

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