Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2008, published 98th ILC session (2009)

Wage gap, Tripartite Commissions on Equality of Opportunity and Treatment and Women’s Trade Union Quota Act. The Committee notes with interest the activities of the Tripartite Commission on Equality of Opportunity and Treatment for men and women at work (CTIO). It notes in particular that provincial Tripartite Commissions on Equality of Opportunity and Treatment have been established and that these Commissions meet in the Federal Council for the formulation of a joint strategy. One of the priority themes of this body is the gender wage gap. Conceptual, evidence-based and statistical materials are being prepared for this purpose. The strategy is supplemented, according to the Government, by the application of the Women’s Trade Union Quota Act No. 25674, under the terms of which each collective bargaining unit for conditions of work has to include women delegates proportional in number to the quantity of women workers in the branch or activity concerned. It also notes the difficulties encountered in giving effect to this Act. The Committee encourages the Government to continue its efforts to strengthen the activities of the CTIO and to achieve the full application of Act No. 25674 so that women can participate actively in the negotiation of their own conditions of work and remuneration, and it requests it to provide information in this respect.

The Committee is raising other points in a request addressed directly to the Government.