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

The Committee notes the Government's last report received in August 1993.

1. Further to its previous comments on the new Labour Code, the Committee notes that the examination of the draft new Code has been completed by the Legislative Council and that it was to be submitted to the National Council after the Parliamentary elections of 8 November 1993 for urgent examination. The Committee hopes that the Code will be adopted in the very near future and that the Government will provide a copy of the text as soon as it has been promulgated.

2. With regard to section 4 of the Public Service Regulations (No. 1, 1988) under which the Council of Ministers is empowered to establish a job classification plan for the entire public service, and section 5 which requires each distinct service to establish an objective appraisal of its posts (describing the obligations and responsibilities of such posts, and the qualifications and experience required to hold them), the Committee again asks the Government to indicate in its next report the methods and criteria used by the Council of Ministers in establishing job classification plans and by the various departments in conducting an objective appraisal of posts.

3. The Committee notes the information concerning minimum wages, and in particular that their fixation is deliberately left to the law of supply and demand. The Committee asks the Government to provide statistics on minimum wage rates and on average actual earnings of men and women broken down, if possible, by occupation, sector of activity, seniority and level of qualifications, as well as information on the corresponding percentage of women.

4. So that it may ascertain how the principle of equal remuneration laid down in the national legislation is applied in practice, the Committee asks the Government to provide recent information in its next report, concerning:

(i) the salaries and indemnities paid in the public service (under the provisions of Chapter V of the Public Service Regulations), with an indication of the percentage of men and women employed at different levels;

(ii) the texts of collective, or other agreements, fixing wage levels in the various sectors of activity, indicating, if possible, the percentage of women covered by these agreements and the distribution of men and women employed at different levels.