Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1996, published 85th ILC session (1997)

The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its report.

1. Noting that the minimum wage is fixed by the Labour Advisory Commission, while other wage rates are determined by collective bargaining, the Committee requests the Government to provide copies of collective agreements determining remuneration rates for a series of sectors, with an indication, where possible, of the percentage of women covered by these instruments and the percentages of men and women employed at the various levels.

2. The Committee notes from the report that section 3(3) of the General Regulations on Conditions of Service of Public Servants provides that public servants who perform "identical" work are entitled to equal wages for "equal" work. The Committee refers the Government to paragraphs 19 to 21 and 52 to 70 of the 1986 General Survey on equal remuneration, in which it explains, that the Convention goes beyond the mere reference to "identical" work when determining the value of work. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the measures which have been taken or are envisaged to include in the General Regulations on Conditions of Service of Public Servants the principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value, and not only for identical work. In the meantime, the Committee once again requests a copy of the wage scales applicable to the public services established by the Decree of 29 December 1990, with information on the distribution of men and women at the various levels and the categories in which a high number of women are engaged.

3. The Committee notes that the statistics provided by the Government in reply to its previous request are not disaggregated by men and women workers and that they do not therefore enable it to assess the participation of women in working life and the application of the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value. It hopes that the Government will provide these statistics in its next report after they have been disaggregated by sex, so that they show the average earnings of men and women, in so far as possible, by occupation, sector, seniority and skill level, and the corresponding percentage of women.