Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

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 report, particularly the fact that it has undertaken to communicate to the Committee, as soon as they are available, the statistics on the percentage of women workers in the agricultural and allied occupations and domestic and household staff, and the distribution of men and women at the various wage levels in these two sectors, and in another sector largely occupied by women, the food industry. With regard to the public sector, the Committee notes that the Government has also promised to supply copies of the decrees implementing section 27 of the Public Service Regulations. Observing that one difficulty encountered by governments in applying this Convention arises from lack of knowledge of the actual situation due to the absence or inadequacy of data and research in this sphere, the Committee expresses the hope that the Government will be in a position to supply this information in its next report, along with the scale of wages determined by the Minister of Labour's order, mentioned as being attached to the report but which has not been received.

2. Noting that the Government has not replied to its previous comments on the application in practice of the principle of equal remuneration, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate in its next report:

(a) the measures taken or contemplated to promote or ensure the effective application of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value, in accordance with Article 2 of the Convention;

(b) the percentage of offences concerning application of the principle enshrined in the Convention in regard to the wage infringements recorded along with the measures taken by the labour inspectors to remedy cases of infringement of laws and regulations on the matter; and

(c) whether an employer's insolvency has consequences for the application of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women.