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INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION CONVENTION

of July 1, 1949 No. 95

Concerning protection of the salary

The general International Labor Organization Convention called in Geneva by Administrative Board of the International Labor Office and which gathered there on June 8, 1949 for the thirty second session, having decided to accept different offers concerning protection of the salary - the seventh item on the agenda of session, having decided that these offers will take the form of the international convention, accepts this July of the first day one thousand nine hundred forty ninth the following Convention which will hereinafter be referred to as as the Convention on protection of the salary, 1949.

Article 1

For the purpose of this Convention the term "salary" means irrespective of the name and method of calculation any remuneration or earnings able to be estimated in money and established by the agreement or the national legal system which the entrepreneur shall pay to force of the written or verbal agreement about hiring of services to the worker for work which either is executed, or shall be executed, or for services which either are rendered, or shall be rendered.

Article 2

1. This Convention is applied to all persons to whom the salary is paid or shall be paid.

2. The competent power after consultation with the organizations of entrepreneurs and workers where such organizations exist and directly are interested in it, can withdraw from operation of the Convention in general or some of its positions of category of persons which work in such circumstances and at such conditions that application of all or some of the mentioned provisions is inexpedient and which are not reached on physical works or are engaged in household or on similar service.

3. Each organization member shall in the first annual report on application of this Convention according to article 22 of the Charter of the International Labour Organization specify all categories of persons which he assumes to exclude from action of all or any provision of the Convention according to resolutions of the previous Item. Afterwards any member will not be able to do similar exceptions, except as concerning categories of persons specified in this report.

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