Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 1995, publiée 82ème session CIT (1995)

The Committee notes the information provided in the Government's report.

1. Noting that the central Government has yet to receive the requested information, the Committee hopes that the Government will be in a position to supply information in its next report on 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 May 1985 of the State of Bihar, in which either men or women are mainly or predominantly employed.

2. The Committee notes that, as yet, no revised notification concerning exemptions has been issued under section 16 of the Equal Remuneration Act, in respect of the employment of air hostesses and flight stewards. The Committee requests the Government to supply a copy of any such notification issued. It also again requests the Government to provide information concerning the outcome of the industrial action taken by the air hostess' association in May 1990.

3. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would continue furnishing information indicating the number of inspections undertaken, the number of irregularities detected and rectified and the number of prosecutions launched under the Equal Remuneration Act at the central level and in the states. The Committee also requests the Government to provide information on the extent to which irregularities are detected in the central and state jurisdictions under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, more particularly as concerns groups of women workers who might be considered especially vulnerable, such as those who are unorganized and tribal.