Monitoring of compliance with labour standards, and in particular those relating to minimum wages, is the responsibility of the labour authorities.

As mentioned earlier, monitoring of compliance with labour standards, and in particular those relating to minimum wages, is the responsibility of the labour authorities.

Business participants in particular highlighted the difficulties faced in ensuring minimum labour standards when national laws were not clear

Labour and related standards

(ii) International Labour Standards

The setting of minimum labour standards would erode the developing countries apos comparative advantages and impede their economic growth and development.

(Labour, Health and Safety Standards)

Minimum ages Countries are free to specify a minimum age for labour, with a minimum of 15 years.

Stipulation and application of labour standards

Minimum operational security standards and training were fundamental.

(x) Observing minimum international standards for responsible fishing practices

71. A minimum protection for vulnerable female migrants would be ensured by the ratification of international labour standards concerning migrant workers by migrant sending and receiving States.

His delegation was also concerned that some developed countries were attempting to introduce minimum labour and environmental standards and even human rights concerns into international trade agreements.

In accordance with Article 67 of the Convention of the International Labour Organisation On Social Insurance Minimum Standards, the maternity benefit amount in 2001 two times exceeded the minimum norms prescribed by the Convention (see the table).

All entities are to uphold certain specific minimum standards, including

Some recent activities on standards and labour law include

This must be complemented by at least the minimum environmental standards.

(j) Observing minimum international standards for responsible fishing practices, including transshipment.

(m) Requiring compliance with international minimum standards for responsible fishing practices

Twelve of these Teams included specialists on international labour standards.

(c) The need for national practices to meet internationally agreed minimum standards

(f) The adoption and enforcement of a legal minimum age for child labour.

The Kingdom's Labour Code is consistent with International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 138 concerning the minimum age for admission to employment.

Some business and other participants recognized a responsibility to respect international standards when national standards were lacking, particularly in the area of labour standards.

(b) Adopt and apply international minimum standards for the responsible conduct of fishing operations

Employers in the United States Virgin Islands must follow federal and territorial labour laws, such as those regulating minimum wages, occupational health and safety standards and payment of Social Security tax and unemployment insurance.

Specific articles of the Labour Code provide cases when employees are guaranteed the minimum monthly wage

We urgently need globally applicable regulatory minimum standards similar to those, say, within the WTO.

Some distributors have chosen to adopt labour and environmental standards for their suppliers.

Gabon had ratified the International Labour Organization (ILO) Minimum Age Convention No. 138, which set the minimum age for employment at 14, but its own legislation improved upon that by making 16 the minimum age.

These provisions' guarantees are non derogable and therefore constitute minimum standards that may never be suspended.

21 A minimum standards approach contrasts with approaches that require management plans or other pre approval.

Latvia has also ratified the 1919 Convention No. 5 of the International Labour Organisation On the Minimum Age of Children, the 1919 Convention No. 6 of the International Labour Organisation On Children's Work at Night in Industry, the 1920 Convention No. 7 of the International Labour Organisation On Establishing the Minimum Age of Children upon Allowing Them to Work on High Seas, the 1973 Convention No. 138 of the International Labour Organisation On the Minimum Age for Hiring.

The State Labour Inspection also exercises supervision in the area of remuneration for work, including the minimum wages.

In Japan, the minimum age for the death penalty is 18 as mandated by the internationals standards.

Conditions of detention fall below international minimum standards in the majority of the juvenile centres in Afghanistan.

1.2 of the households live in places that do not even meet the minimum standards of housing.

Additional work was required by many offices however to ensure full Minimum Operating Security Standards (MOSS) compliance.

(d) Maintenance of minimum standards for special hardship case families in respect of nutrition and shelter rehabilitation

The Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights provides minimum standards of intellectual property protection.

The agenda of the 81st Session of the International Labour Conference included consideration of the adoption of international labour standards on part time work.

Ms. Donovan (International Labour Organization (ILO)) said that the elimination of child labour was an attainable goal towards which her organization was working by means of international labour standards and technical cooperation.

The 1973 International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention (No. 138) concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment resolution 2005 44

The current year will bring the United Nations complex into full compliance with the minimum operating security standards.

The lack of minimum living standards in the developing countries posed a threat to the whole international community.