Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2007, published 97th ILC session (2008)

Application in practice. The Committee notes that despite repeated requests made by the Committee, the Government’s report contains no statistical information concerning the earnings of men and women. The Committee reminds the Government that an analysis of the position and pay of men and women in all job categories within and between the various sectors is required to address fully the continuing remuneration gap between men and women which is based on sex. In order to permit an adequate evaluation of the nature, extent and causes of the pay differential between men and women and the progress achieved in implementing the principle of the Convention, the collection and analysis of the fullest possible statistical information, disaggregated by sex, on the earnings of men and women is crucial. The Committee, therefore, urges the Government to provide detailed information on the earnings of women and men in the private and public sectors, as far as possible as set out in the Committee’s 1998 general observation. In addition, the Committee asks the Government to provide information concerning its own analysis of the evolution of the acknowledged gender pay gap.

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