Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 2001, publiée 90ème session CIT (2002)

The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its report.

1. The Committee notes that its comments concerning the new Labour Code were taken partly into account in the final draft of the Labour Code submitted to Parliament. The Government indicates that the draft Code prohibits wage discrimination between men and women for work of equal value. The Committee hopes that the draft will be amended in order to give full effect to the Convention, including the broader concept of remuneration contained in Article 1 of the Convention. The Committee asks the Government to send the text of the Labour Code once it has been adopted by Parliament.

2. The Committee notes that the Government makes no specific reply to the comments made by the Committee in its two previous observations, in which it drew attention to the fact that, although there is no discrimination between men and women in law, in practice women are concentrated in certain jobs in the public administration and account for very few management posts and positions of responsibility. The Committee observes that the report contains no information on the current status of women or on any measures taken in this respect. It hopes that the Government will be in a position to provide information in its future reports on efforts made to improve women’s status in the labour market, including their access to better paid jobs, both in the public sector and in the private sector. The Committee notes that the tripartite agreement signed on 23 April 2000, which has several social and economic aspects including wages, provides for the formulation of programmes to eradicate occupational illiteracy among men and women workers. Noting that the agreement makes no reference to equality between men and women, the Committee hopes that the issue of equality between men and women workers, particularly in respect of promoting equal remuneration, will be taken into consideration by the joint committee in charge of examining criteria for internal promotion. The Committee notes that the Government has again undertaken to send statistics on wages and working hours of men and women once the results of the survey on the subject are published by the competent authorities.

3. The Committee notes that the Government’s report contains no reply to the comments in its previous observation on the measures envisaged for the appraisal of jobs and on the usefulness of a technique allowing the relative value of the tasks performed to be analytically and objectively measured and compared. The Committee again asks the Government to send information on any measures taken relating to use of job evaluation methodologies.

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