[124 MINIMUM WAGE LEGISLATION IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES

other side should be represented on the same footing. The wage-fixing body
should also include one or more independent persons whose votes can insure
sifective decisions being reached in the event of the votes of the employers’ and
workers’ representatives being equally divided. Such independent persons
should, as far as possible, be selected in agreement with or after consultation
with the employers’ and workers’ representatives on the wage-fixing body.
(5) In order to insure that the employers’ and workers’ representatives shall
be persons having the confidence of those whose interests they respectively
represent, the employers and workers concerned should be given a voice as far
as is practicable in the circumstances in the selection of their representatives,
and if any organizations of the employers and workers exist these should in
any case be invited to submit names of persons recommended by them for
appointment on the wage-fixing body.
(¢) The independent person or persons mentioned in paragraph (a) should
be selected from among men or women recognized as possessing the necessary
qualifications for their duties and as being dissociated from any interest in the
trade or part of trade concerned which might be calculated to put their
impartiality in question.
(d) Wherever a considerable proportion of women are employed, provision
should be made as far as possible for the inclusion of women among the
workers’ representatives and of one or more women among the independent
persons mentioned in paragraph (a).

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For the purpose of determining the minimum rates of wages to be fixed, the
wage-fixing body should in any case take account of the necessity of enabiing
the workers concerned to maintain a suitable standard of living. For this
purpose regard should primarily be had to the rates of wages being paid for
similar work in trades where the workers are adequately organized and have
concluded effective collective agreements, or, if no such standard of reference is
available in the circumstances, to the general level of wages prevailing in the
country or in the particular locality.
Provision should be made for the review of the minimum rates of wages
fixed by the wage-fixing bodies when this is desired by the workers or employers
 who are members of such bodies.

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For effectively protecting the wages of the workers concerned and safezuarding
 the employers affected against the possibility of unfair competition, the
measures to be taken to insure that wages are not paid at less than the minimum
 rates which have been fixed should include:
(a2) Arrangements for informing the employers and workers of the rates
in force;
(b) Official supervision of the rates actually being paid; and
(¢) Penalties for infringements of the rates in force and measures for
oreventing such infringements.
(1) In order that the workers, who are less likely than the employers to
nave their own means of acquainting themselves with the wage-fixing body’s
decisions, may be kept informed of the minimum rates at which they are to be
paid, employers might be required to display full statements of the rates in
force in readily accessible positions on the premises where the workers are
employed, or in the case of home workers on the premises where the work is
given out or returned on completion or wages paid.
(2) A sufficient staff of inspectors should be employed, with powers analogous
 to those proposed for factory inspectors im the recommendation concerning
 the general principles for the organization of systems of inspection adopted
oy the general conference in 1923, to make investigations among the employers
and workers concerned with a view to ascertaining whether the minimum rates
in force are in fact being paid and taking such steps as may be authorized to
leal with infringements of the rates.
As a means of enabling the inspectors adequately to carry out these duties,
rmplovers might be required to keep complete and authentic records of the