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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:

For a number of years, the Government has indicated in its reports that the Labour Code is in the process of being revised in order to bring the legislation into conformity with the Convention. The Committee noted from a previous report that measures were being considered to supervise more closely the application of the principle of equal remuneration, by strengthening the representation of staff in enterprises. In this connection, the Government refers in its last report to proposals to merge the present staff representation structures (works committees, employers' and workers' joint advisory committees, health and safety committees, etc.) into a single structure in the form of an employers' and workers' joint works committee to be established in all enterprises employing more than 20 workers, and having the status of a legal entity enabling it to manage the social affairs of the enterprise directly. The Committee requests the Government to provide full information on the means of action which will be available to the employers' and workers' joint works committee so that it can ensure observance of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value.

Furthermore, the Committee asks the Government to supply information on the establishment of classifications and occupational wage scales as they appear in the collective agreements in force, stating, in particular, the criteria used in job classification. It also requests the Government to provide copies of the collective agreements concluded in sectors employing a large number of women.