Minimum Wage, Salaries, Advancements : Gov’t Efforts At Protecting Labour Security Highlighted

Aspects relating to local workforce protection in multinational companies, remunerations in the extractive industries sector and other private sectors not aligned to international standards and conventions, but rather to local markets through the Collective Agreement, and government’s actions in protecting workers in the private sector in situations of recruitment and advancements have been explained to lawmakers. Labour and Social Security Minister, Grégoire Owona, was responding to six questions asked by Hon. Kum John Nji on June 24, 2022 during a plenary sitting chaired by the Speaker of the National Assembly, Cavaye Yeguie Djibril. 
Providing responses, the Minister said the protection of local workforce in multinational companies is addressed in the provisions of the June 13, 2021Circular on general clauses applicable to foreign investors in Cameroon. The legal instrument, the Minister said, states that investors are required to recruit Cameroonians according to quotas per socio-professional category, and compliance is ensured during inspection visits by labour inspectors.  
As concerns remunerations in the extractive industries, Minister Grégoire Owona, noted that the wage policy in Cameroon is based on the ILO Convention No. 98 on the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining, and Section 58 of the August 14, 1992 law on the Labour Code in Cameroon. Based on the combined instruments mentioned above, the Minister explained, the wage rate in the sector is the result of negotiations between employers’ organisations and workers’ trade unions under the supervision of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security.
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