Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1994, published 81st ILC session (1994)

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 statement that the labour inspection services have not recorded any complaints from women workers concerning discrimination in remuneration. It asks the Government to continue to supply in its future reports information on measures taken to ensure supervision of the application of the provisions of the Labour Code (section 141) that concern equal remuneration and the provisions of the General Collective Agreement that concern job classifications and, in particular, information on the activities of the labour inspectorate (violations recorded, sanctions imposed) and on court decisions concerning these matters.

2. The Committee notes that, according to the Government, female labour is concentrated in secretarial and typing jobs, whereas it is virtually absent from the road transport, engineering, construction, water supply and forestry sectors. The Committee again refers to paragraph 22 of its 1986 General Survey on Equal Remuneration and asks the Government to indicate the measures taken or contemplated to ensure that in sectors employing a majority of women, qualities traditionally considered as "peculiar to women" are properly evaluated in the light of the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value.

3. Further to its general observation of 1990, the Committee hopes that the Government and the employers' and workers' organizations will endeavour to collect and analyse data on earnings and related factors in order to facilitate the application of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would, if possible, provide information on any studies or surveys of this kind.