Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1996, published 85th ILC session (1997)

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:

1. The Committee notes with interest the statement that the objective evaluation of jobs on the basis of the work to be performed is carried out by the National Manpower Office, which also has a monopoly on placing workers. The Committee requests the Government to supply information on the criteria used by this Office to assess the qualifications of jobseekers and to evaluate the requirements of the employer and the nature of the work to be performed when it determines the remuneration of those concerned. The Committee would also be grateful if the Government would indicate how the application is ensured of the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value, as set out in the Convention, particularly where men and women in practice perform work of a different nature but of equal value. (Please refer in this connection to paragraphs 20 to 23 and 52 to 70 of the Committee's General Survey of 1986 on equal remuneration.)

2. With reference to its previous requests that copies be supplied of certain collective agreements - particularly those applicable to activities employing a large proportion of women - the Committee notes that the Government has not supplied the requested copies. It therefore trusts that the Government will supply them with the next report (for example, copies of collective agreements that are in force applying to banks, businesses, the Central African Agricultural Development Society (SOCADA) and the African Society for International Telecommunications (SOCATI); the sections of these agreements concerning the determination of wage rates may be sufficient).