With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to a fair remuneration, the Contracting Parties undertake:
- 1.to recognise the right of workers to a remuneration such as will give them and their families a decent standard of living;
- 2.to recognise the right of workers to an increased rate of remuneration for overtime work, subject to exceptions in particular cases;
- 3.to recognise the right of men and women workers to equal pay for work of equal value;
- 4.to recognise the right of all workers to a reasonable period of notice for termination of employment;
- 5.to permit deductions from wages only under conditions and to the extent prescribed by national laws or regulations or fixed by collective agreements or arbitration awards.
The exercise of these rights shall be achieved by freely concluded, collective agreements, by statutory wage-fixing machinery, or by other means appropriate to national conditions.
