Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2025, published 114th ILC session (2026)

Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26) - Burundi (Ratification: 1963)

The Committee notes the observations of the Trade Union Confederation of Burundi (COSYBU), received on 28 August 2025.

Article 3 of the Convention. Operation of the minimum wage-fixing machinery. Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes the Government’s indication that a Bill on a ministerial ordinance to fix the guaranteed interoccupational minimum wage (SMIG) already exists. According to the Government, however, the results of the analysis of the evolution of the socio-economic situation are still pending. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that the tripartite technical committee will validate the study once it has been received. It also notes the information from COSYBU that the employers and workers concerned are invited to participate in the analysis meetings regarding the updating of the SMIG. The Committee once again notes with regret that, despite the steps taken to reactivate the minimum wage review process, the SMIG has not been readjusted since 1988 and minimum wages applicable by category through collective agreements in different branches of activity or in enterprises have not yet been fixed. In this context, the Committee once again urges the Government to take all necessary measures to readjust the SMIG without delay, in consultation with the workers’ and employers’ concerned, so as to ensure that new minimum wage rates are fixed for workers employed in trades in which no arrangements exist for the effective regulation of wages by collective agreements or otherwise, and wages are exceptionally low. It also requests the Government to take all necessary measures to adopt the Bill for the ministerial ordinance to fix the SMIG and to provide information on all progress achieved in this regard, including by providing a copy of the ordinance in question, once adopted. In addition, the Committee once again requests the Government to provide information onminimum wages applicable by category in different branches of activity or in enterprises, including home working trades, once these have been fixed by collective agreement.