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9 9  Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Fifty-fourth Session on 3 June 1970, and
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11 -Noting the terms of the Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Recommendation, 1928, the Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery (Agriculture) Recommendation, 1951, and the Equal Remuneration Recommendation, 1951, which contain valuable guidelines for [[minimum wage>>doc:working:Glossary.Minimum wage.WebHome]] fixing bodies, and
11 +Noting the terms of the [[Minimum Wage>>doc:working:Glossary.Minimum wage.WebHome]]-Fixing Machinery Recommendation, 1928, the
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13 +[[Minimum Wage>>doc:working:Glossary.Minimum wage.WebHome]] Fixing Machinery (Agriculture) Recommendation, 1951, and the Equal Remuneration Recommendation, 1951, which contain valuable guidelines for [[minimum wage>>doc:working:Glossary.Minimum wage.WebHome]] fixing bodies, and
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13 13  Considering that experience in more recent years has emphasised the importance of certain additional considerations relating to [[minimum wage>>doc:working:Glossary.Minimum wage.WebHome]] fixing, including that of adopting criteria which will make systems of [[minimum wages>>doc:working:Glossary.Minimum wage.WebHome]] both an effective instrument of social protection and an element in the strategy of economic and social development, and
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15 15  Considering that [[minimum wage>>doc:working:Glossary.Minimum wage.WebHome]] fixing should in no way operate to the prejudice of the exercise and growth of free collective bargaining as a means of fixing wages higher than the minimum, and
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19 19  Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a Recommendation,
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21 -adopts this twenty-second day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and seventy, the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Minimum Wage Fixing Recommendation, 1970:
23 +adopts this twenty-second day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and seventy, the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the [[Minimum Wage>>doc:working:Glossary.Minimum wage.WebHome]] Fixing Recommendation, 1970:
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23 23  = I. Purpose of Minimum Wage Fixing =
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35 35  * (c) the cost of living and changes therein;
36 36  * (d) social security benefits;
37 37  * (e) the relative living standards of other social groups;
38 -* (f) economic factors, including the requirements of economic development, levels of productivity and the desirability of attaining and maintaining a high level of [[employment>>doc:working:Glossary.Employment Work.WebHome]].
40 +* (f) economic factors, including the requirements of economic development, levels of productivity and the desirability of attaining and maintaining a high level of employment.
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40 40  = III. Coverage of the Minimum Wage Fixing System =
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50 50  = IV. Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery =
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52 -6. The [[minimum wage>>doc:working:Glossary.Minimum wage.WebHome]] fixing machinery provided for in Article 4 of the Convention may take a variety of forms, such as the fixing of [[minimum wages>>doc:working:Glossary.Minimum wage.WebHome]] by:
54 +6. The [[minimum wage>>doc:working:Glossary.Minimum wage.WebHome]] fixing machinery provided for in Article 4 of the Convention may take a variety of forms, such as the fixing of [[minimum wages>>doc:working:Glossary.Minimum wage.WebHome]] by  o (a) statute;
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54 -* (a) statute;
55 55  * (b) decisions of the competent authority, with or without formal provision for taking account of recommendations from other bodies;
56 56  * (c) decisions of wages boards or councils;
57 57  * (d) industrial or labour courts or tribunals; or
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80 80  13.
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82 -* (1) In order to assist in the application of Paragraph 11 of this Recommendation, periodical surveys of national economic conditions, including trends in income per head, in productivity and in [[employment>>doc:working:Glossary.Employment Work.WebHome]], [[unemployment>>doc:working:Glossary.Unemployment.WebHome]] and underemployment, should be made to the extent that national resources permit.
83 +* (1) In order to assist in the application of Paragraph 11 of this Recommendation, periodical surveys of national economic conditions, including trends in income per head, in productivity and in employment, [[unemployment>>doc:working:Glossary.Unemployment.WebHome]] and underemployment, should be made to the extent that national resources permit.
83 83  * (2) The frequency of such surveys should be determined in the light of national conditions.
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85 85  = VI. Enforcement =
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87 87  14. Measures to ensure the effective application of all provisions relating to [[minimum wages>>doc:working:Glossary.Minimum wage.WebHome]], as provided for in Article 5 of the Convention, should include the following:
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89 89  * (a) arrangements for giving publicity to [[minimum wage>>doc:working:Glossary.Minimum wage.WebHome]] provisions in languages or dialects understood by workers who need protection, adapted where necessary to the needs of illiterate persons;
90 -* (b) the [[employment>>doc:working:Glossary.Employment Work.WebHome]] of a sufficient number of adequately trained inspectors equipped with the powers and facilities necessary to carry out their duties;
91 +* (b) the employment of a sufficient number of adequately trained inspectors equipped with the powers and facilities necessary to carry out their duties;
91 91  * (c) adequate penalties for infringement of the provisions relating to [[minimum wages>>doc:working:Glossary.Minimum wage.WebHome]];
92 92  * (d) simplification of legal provisions and procedures, and other appropriate means of enabling workers effectively to exercise their rights under [[minimum wage>>doc:working:Glossary.Minimum wage.WebHome]] provisions, including the right to recover amounts by which they may have been underpaid;
93 93  * (e) the association of employers' and workers' organisations in efforts to protect workers against abuses;
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