Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2012, published 102nd ILC session (2013)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Central African Republic (Ratification: 1964)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Repetition

Article 2(2)(c) of the Convention. Collective agreements. The Committee notes the Government’s statement that there is effective application of the principle of equal remuneration by means of collective agreements. Noting the Government’s statement that extracts from collective agreements or enterprise agreements incorporating the principle in the Convention will be communicated, the Committee asks that these documents will be sent in the near future.

Article 3. Objective job evaluation. The Committee notes that, according to the Government, a study at government level has made an evaluation of jobs, concentrating on employment and training needs, and that this study will be communicated very shortly. The Committee asks the Government to send a copy of the study on employment and training needs and to provide information on any measures concerning job evaluation with a view to ensuring equal remuneration for men and women that have been taken or are envisaged on the basis of the findings of this study.

Article 4. Cooperation with employers’ and workers’ organizations. Awareness-raising measures and monitoring of the application. The Committee welcomes the setting up of a committee consisting of labour inspectors, which carried out, in partnership with the employers’ and workers’ organizations, activities in the country’s major cities to raise awareness about the provisions of the new Labour Code, including the principle of equal remuneration. Referring to its observation, the Committee nevertheless recalls that the new Labour Code does not give full effect to the principle of the Convention, because it limits equality of remuneration to “equal working conditions, skills and output”. The Committee therefore asks the Government to indicate the measures taken to facilitate a broader understanding of the principle of equal remuneration between men and women for work of equal value within the meaning of the Convention, and in particular of the concept “work of equal value”, by employers, workers and their organizations, magistrates, labour inspectors and other officials. The Government is also asked to provide information on the activities conducted by workers’ and employers’ organizations in the area of equal remuneration between men and women for work of equal value, as well as on any cases of wage discrimination dealt with by the labour inspectorate and any legal ruling on cases dealing with equal remuneration.

Statistics. The Committee takes note of the Government’s statement that statistics on the remuneration of men and women in the public and private sectors are not available for the moment. Given that sex-disaggregated statistics on the number of men and women in employment, in the various economic sectors and on their remuneration are essential to assess the application of the principle of equal remuneration as set out in the Convention, the Committee asks the Government to indicate the measures taken or envisaged to collect and analyse this information.