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 with interest that the programme to establish a national classification of jobs has finally been completed and that a copy of the classification is attached to the report. It hopes that the Government will be in a position to report in the near future on the progress achieved in practice with regard to the objective appraisal of jobs, which is one of the measures that can assist in giving effect to the principle of equal remuneration (Article 3 of the Convention).

2. The Committee notes the publication of Act No. 101/iv/93 of 31 December 1993 to revise the general legal framework of industrial relations, of which section 39(m) refers explicitly to the right of workers to equal remuneration for equal work. With reference to paragraph 44 of its 1986 General Survey on equal remuneration, and in view of the ambiguity of the term "equal", which may either be interpreted narrowly or broadly, the Committee requests the Government to specify whether in practice, in accordance with Article 2 of the Convention, equal remuneration is paid for the same work as well as for work to which an equal value is attributed.

3. The Committee notes the wage scales currently applicable in the public service, as transmitted by the Government, and would be grateful if the Government would supply statistics in its next report showing the distribution of men and women at the various levels and in positions of responsibility.