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The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the following matters raised in its previous direct request:

The Committee took note of the information concerning the measures taken to make known the wage scales (1981-86) and the number of workers covered by the minimum wage-fixing system. It requests the Government to continue to supply information on the operation of the wages system and particularly on the wage rates fixed.

Article 3 of the Convention. The Committee notes that section 6 of Decree No. 86/81 of 26 October 1981 establishes committees at the work centre (enterprise) level and at provincial and national levels to apply the wage scale issued by Act No. 8/81 of the same date. The Committee notes that under sections 8 and 9 of the above Decree, the provincial committees coordinated by the provincial Commissioner are composed of representatives of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, the Ministry of Finance and the National Union of Angolan Workers, and that the national committee coordinated by the Minister of Labour and Social Security is composed of representatives of the Ministries of Planning, Labour and Social Security, and Finance and of representatives of the National Union of Angolan Workers.

The Committee notes that, under section 1 of the Act and section 10 of the Decree, the wages system applies to State, mixed, private and cooperative bodies and enterprises, and requests the Government to state the measures taken or contemplated to enable employers' representatives in the mixed, private or cooperative sectors to be consulted and to participate in equal numbers and on equal terms with workers' representatives, in accordance with the provisions of Article 3, paragraph 2, of the Convention.

Article 3, paragraph 2(3), and Article 4. The Committee notes that no provision indicates that the minimum wage rates fixed by the system are compulsory for the employers and workers concerned. It also notes that under section 166 of the Labour Act (No. 6/81) any breach of the provisions of the Act is subject to a fine to be determined by Decree. It requests the Government to indicate the measures taken or under consideration to prescribe a sanction for infringements of the wage rates fixed by law.