Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

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 that the Government's two brief reports for the period ending 30 June 1996 are limited to information of a general nature or information already communicated to the Committee. As it did in its two previous direct requests, the Committee therefore asks the Government once again to supply in its next report detailed information on the work of the National Tripartite Committee which has the task of undertaking an objective appraisal of jobs with a view to fixing wages and on the methods used for the appraisal in order to ensure in practice the application of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value in accordance with Article 1(a) of the Convention. To this end, the Government might usefully refer to paragraphs 138-150 of the Committee's General Survey of 1986 on equal remuneration in which it deals with the objective evaluation of jobs and its use for applying the principle of the Convention. The ILO is ready to consider any request for technical assistance in this field which the Government may wish to request.

2. Noting that the Government has given instructions to the labour directorate with a view to indicating how the principle of equal remuneration, within the meaning of the Convention, is applied in the case of wages higher than the minimum legal or agreed rate and to supply copies of some of the collective agreements applicable to sectors of activity in which a large number of women are employed, the Committee hopes that this information as well as the collective agreements (mentioned as being attached to the report but not received) will be sent with the next report.