Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

In previous comments, the Committee noted that, while wage rates which discriminated on the basis of sex were removed in the majority of trades in the 1980s, differential wage rates remain for men and women in the tobacco trade, and differential time/piece-rates are still in force for men and women workers in the cinnamon trade. The Committee notes the Government's statement that every effort to convene a meeting with the Wages Boards for these trades has failed and that now action is to be pursued by the Commissioner of Labour to declare a uniform rate. The Committee welcomes this statement of intent and looks forward to receiving information on the progress made with regard to eliminating wage differentials between men and women in the tobacco and cinnamon trades.

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