Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 1996, publiée 85ème session CIT (1997)

The Committee notes the Government's report and the information which replies to almost all its previous comments.

1. The Committee recalls that in a document attached to a previous report, the Government stated that an information and registration system was being established to provide updated information on age, sex, wage, level of work, etc. of workers in the public sector in order to assess how the principle of equal remuneration was applied in practice. The Committee observes that in the quarterly statistics on the public administration for the period April to June 1995 almost three times as many men as women earned over ten times the minimum wage. Bearing in mind that occupational segregation influences equal remuneration of the sexes (see paragraph 256 of the 1986 General Survey on equal remuneration), the Committee requests the Government to comment on this inequality in the number of public employees and the difference in the number of men and women at the highest levels.

2. The Committee also asks the Government once again to send the texts of collective agreements which lay down salaries in the various sectors with indications, where possible, of the percentage of women covered by these collective agreements and the proportion of men and women at the various levels.