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With reference to its previous direct requests, the Committee notes the Government's report.

1. With regard to the inclusion in several collective agreements for a number of years now of a provision under which the employer, if the employee is transferred, must pay all the costs incurred by the employee, his wife and up to three children, the Committee notes that, according to the Government, this provision applies to any woman employee who submits her claim, although it is continuing to follow the matter and will bring the Committee's comments to the attention of trade group councils so that the necessary corrective action can be taken. In view of the fact that the Government has been making the same statement since 1985, the Committee trusts that the collective agreements in question will be brought into conformity with established practice in the very near future and that the Government will be in a position to announce the measures taken for this purpose in its next report. It requests the Government to supply with its next report the text of the most recent collective agreements concluded by the 14 trade group councils (which were established by the Regulation of Wages and Industrial Relations Act, No. 18 of 1971).

2. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would supply the decisions of the Joint Consultative Committee fixing minimum wage rates in order to enable it to ascertain the application of the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value. Please specify whether a job evaluation system is currently in use in the public sector and in the private sector.