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The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

1. The Committee notes the Government's repeated statement that section 97 of the Labour Code provides for equal remuneration for equal work, and not for work of equal value, in accordance with Article 1(b) of the Convention. With reference to the Government's previous statement that, on the occasion of a future revision of the Code, it would not fail to take into account the definition of remuneration set out in the Convention, the Committee hopes that the next report will contain information on the measures which have been taken or are envisaged to bring the Code into conformity with the Convention. The Committee recalls that the ILO is at the Government's disposal for any technical assistance that it might wish to receive in this field.

2. The Committee notes that the study of wages has resulted in the formulation of a draft Decree to determine minimum wages and that, despite its approval by the Council of Ministers in April 1992, problems of a social and political nature have delayed its signature by the Head of State. It hopes that the draft text will be definitively adopted in the very near future and that the Government will supply a copy of the text, as promised in the report, and will give an indication of the impact of its adoption on the application of the principle set out in the Convention.

3. The Committee notes the recent adoption of Decree No. 93 of 5 October 1993 to classify, determine the manner of appointment and issue special management rules respecting titular employees in the higher and middle management of the State's civil administration. It requests the Government to supply a copy of this Decree and to indicate the impact of its adoption on the application of the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value for men and women workers in the public administration. In this respect, in order to enable it to assess the manner in which the principle is applied in practice, the Committee requests the Government to supply the wage scales currently applicable in the public service, with an indication of the distribution of men and women at the various levels. The Committee recalls the Government's previous statement that it envisaged establishing a system with the assistance of the ILO for the objective appraisal of jobs on the basis of the work to be performed and it requests the Government to state whether this new classification responds to this objective and to keep it informed of developments relating to any other proposed measures in this respect.

4. The Committee notes that the general principles of the reform of the conditions of service of the public service have already been laid down and that the study of this reform was to have been taken up once again and completed in January 1994. The Committee hopes that the new conditions of service of the public service will guarantee equal remuneration for work of equal value and, in particular, that in the context of the current reform, section 8 of Act No. 80-22 to issue the general conditions of service of public servants (which prohibits any distinction between the two sexes subject to special provisions in other legislation) will be brought into conformity with the Convention. It requests the Government to supply a copy of the new conditions of service as soon as they are adopted.