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:

Further to its observation, the Committee requests the Government to supply information on the following points:

1. As requested in the first paragraph of the Committee's 1992 direct request, please indicate the means by which comparisons are made between the work performed by men and women as regards categories covered by Notification No. SO 444 of 7.5.1985 of the State of Bihar, in which either men or women are mainly or predominantly employed.

2. The Committee requests the Government to provide information concerning the outcome of the industrial action taken by the Air Hostess Association and to provide a copy of the revised notification to be issued by the Government in respect of the employment of air hostesses and flight stewards under section 16 of the Equal Remuneration Act. The Committee requests the Government to provide a copy of the Supreme Court decision in the case of D'Costa v. Mackinnon, MacKenzie and Company, which was unfortunately not received with the Government's report.

3. Referring to paragraph 2 of its 1991 direct request, the Committee has noted that information concerning the employment and absorption of a number of women workers will be forwarded once it has been received from the Ministry of Railways.

4. The Committee asks the Government to continue supplying full and detailed statistics, for both the private and public sectors, which show how the principle of the Convention is being applied.