Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 1990, publiée 77ème session CIT (1990)

The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its report and the collective agreements attached to the report.

1. The Committee notes with interest section 2(3) of the collective agreement for the workers at the Villeroy and Boch enterprise, which lays down the principle of equal remuneration without discrimination on grounds of sex. In this collective agreement, the classification of jobs according to basic groups shows a concentration of women in wage groups 2, 3, 4 and 5, which are at the bottom of the table of indices of wage groups. The Committee requests the Government to indicate whether this classification has its origins in the fact that women workers are concentrated in jobs that are traditionally held to be typically female and whether measures have been taken or are envisaged, as regards vocational training and in other areas, to promote equality of opportunity in access to jobs that lie at the top of the scale of wage groups. It also requests it to supply comparative classifications on the distribution of men and women workers by wage group and by job in other collective agreements.

2. The Committee notes the lack of provisions setting out the principle of equal remuneration in the collective agreements that were supplied, other than the agreement covering the Villeroy and Boch enterprise. It requests the Government to indicate the measures that have been taken or are envisaged to encourage the social partners to include clauses in these agreements setting out the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value in order to promote its application in practice.

3. The Committee notes the co-ordinated text of 21 July 1988 of the amended Grand Ducal Regulation of 4 April 1964 putting the remuneration of officials in communes, groups of communes and public establishments placed under the responsibility of the communes on a similar basis to that of state officials, and it notes in particular section 2(3) of the amended text under which, for identical work, the remuneration of women public servants is equal to that of men public servants.

4. The Committee refers to its previous comments and requests the Government to continue supplying with its future reports copies of judicial decisions handed down in respect of equal remuneration, including other allowances.