Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2006, published 96th ILC session (2007)

1. Objective job evaluation. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that it is monitoring efforts by the social partners to ensure the use of objective job evaluation in the negotiation of collective agreements. The Committee welcomes the Government’s initiative in this regard and hopes that, beyond monitoring the negotiation of such agreements, the Government will also take measures to promote the principle of equal remuneration in practice. The Committee asks the Government to provide copies of any collective agreements that include provisions for equal remuneration for work of equal value, and to indicate the methods adopted in the negotiation of these agreements to objectively measure and compare the relative value of the jobs performed. Please also indicate how the Government cooperates with the social partners to give effect to the principle of the Convention by, for example, informing workers and employers and their organizations of the legal requirements for the application of the principle of equal remuneration and of practical measures necessary to apply the principle. The Committee further asks the Government for information on the measures taken to ensure the application of the principle of equal remuneration in the public sector, including information on the methods used to evaluate jobs and assign remuneration levels in a non-discriminatory manner.

2. Promotion of the principle of the Convention. The Committee notes that the Government’s report does not include information on the activities carried out by the recently created National Council for Women. The Committee again hopes that the Council will soon be able to put its mandate into practice to promote the advancement of the status of women in the country and to conduct and disseminate research in this area. The Committee asks the Government to provide information in its next report on the activities carried out by the Council to promote the application of the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value, including copies of reports, published studies and surveys as well as information on the involvement of the social partners.