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

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 that the Government qualifies its previous statement that the principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers is set out in the national legislation, and particularly in section 84 of Act No. 90-11 of 17 April 1990 respecting industrial relations. The Committee notes the above statement and recalls that for a number of years it has been requesting information in order to enable it to assess the manner in which the principle of the Convention, set out in section 84 of the above Act, is applied in practice. The Government states in reply that information concerning the wage rates determined by collective agreement have been requested and will be supplied as soon as they have been received. The Committee hopes that the Government will be in a position to supply with its next report the wage scales determined by collective agreement or other means which are applicable in the occupations and sectors employing a large number of women, with an indication of the distribution of men and women at the various wage levels.

It would also be grateful if the Government would supply copies of the collective agreements that are in force which determine the wage scales concluded in the context of Act No. 90-11 of 17 April 1990, which repeals the Act of 5 August 1978 issuing the general conditions of service of workers, with an indication if possible of the percentage of women covered by these agreements.

2. The Committee thanks the Government for having supplied a copy of Decree No. 85-59 of 23 March 1985 issuing model conditions of service for employees in public institutions and administrations. It notes the national indicative scale determined by the above Decree. However, it notes that the Government did not supply with the wage scale an indication of the distribution of men and women at the various levels, as the Committee had requested in its previous comments. It therefore hopes that, in order to enable it to assess the manner in which the principle of the Convention is implemented in practice in the public sector, the next report will contain indications of the distribution of men and women in the 20 categories envisaged in the above scale in public institutions and administrations which employ a large number of women.

3. The Committee notes that the Government has not replied to point 2 of its previous direct request. It hopes that the Government will indicate in its next report the number and nature of the jobs held by women in the 105 jobs re-evaluated by Decree No. 82/356 of 20 November 1982 to determine the national method for the classification of jobs, to which reference was made in the Government's previous report.