Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2025, published 114th ILC session (2026)

Senegal

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) (Ratification: 1962)
Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) (Ratification: 1967)

In order to provide a comprehensive view of the issues relating to the application of ratified Conventions on equality, in respect of which the Government’s reports are being examined this year, the Committee considers it appropriate to examine Conventions Nos 100 (Equal Remuneration) and 111 (Discrimination in Employment and Occupation), together.

Convention No. 111 – National policy to promote equality of opportunity and treatment in employment and work

Articles 1 and 3(b). Prohibited grounds of discrimination. The Committee notes with satisfaction the indication in the Government’s report in response to its previous comment that Act No. 2022-03 of 14 April 2022 revising and supplementing certain provisions respecting non-discrimination at work in Act No. 97-17 of 1 December 1997 issuing the Labour Code has introduced section L.29-2 of the Labour Code, subsection 1 of which defines discrimination as “any distinction, exclusion or preference made on the basis of race, colour, age, sex, trade union activity, belonging to a religion, fraternity or sect, political opinion, national extraction, ethnic or social origin, disability, pregnancy, family situation, state of health or serological status, which has the effect of nullifying or impairing equality of opportunity or treatment in employment or occupation”. The Committee notes this information, which replies to its previous request.

Direct and indirect discrimination. Recalling that the promotion of equality of treatment in employment and occupation requires the adoption in law of a definition of direct and indirect discrimination, and noting that section L.29-2(2) of the Labour Code does not contain such a definition, the Committee requests the Government to provide information on any measure adopted in this respect, particularly within the context of the current revision of the Labour Code.

Convention No. 100 – Principle of equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value

Articles 1(b) and 2. Concept of work of equal value. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that the concept of “work of equal value” will be integrated into the new Labour Code during the reform process that it is undergoing, which will take the form of an amendment to sections L.86(7) and L.105 which, in their current wording, cover respectively situations of “equal work” and “equal conditions of work, vocational qualifications and output”, and which do not therefore give full effect to the principle set out in the Convention.

The Committee hopes that the reform of the Labour Code will make it possible in the near future to give full effect to the principle of equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value set out in the Convention and requests the Government to provide information on the progress achieved in this respect.

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