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Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Niger (RATIFICATION: 1966)

Article 1(a) of the Convention. Additional emoluments. Public service. The Committee recalls that under Decree No. 60-55/MFP/T of 30 March 1960 regulating the remuneration and material benefits of officials in state public administrations and establishments, men and women public officials do not benefit from family allowances and other benefits and bonuses on equal terms and it asked the Government to take the necessary steps to ensure that they can do so. Noting the Government’s indication that measures are being taken in the new apparatus to incorporate the possibility in the legislation for women public officials to be entitled to the family benefit, including where both spouses are public officials, the Committee requests the Government to adopt these measures without delay and provide a copy of the relevant provisions.

Article 2(2)(c). Collective agreements. The Committee notes that the Government’s report does not contain any new information on this point. The Committee therefore once again expresses the hope that the Government will take steps to raise the awareness of the social partners regarding the importance of ensuring that collective agreements, particularly the future inter-occupational collective agreement, contain clauses on equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value and establish the means to implement this principle.

Minimum wages. Job titles. In its previous comment, further to the adoption of Decree No. 2012-358/PRN/MFP/T of 17 August 2012 fixing the minimum wages for occupational categories of workers governed by the inter-occupational collective agreement, the Committee drew the Government’s attention to the need to use neutral terminology to avoid perpetuating stereotypes according to which certain jobs should be done by men and others by women (boy server (barman), gouvernante (housekeeper), aide gouvernante (maid), etc.). Noting that the Government does not provide any information on this point, the Committee once again requests the Government to adopt measures in future reforms, in collaboration with employers’ and workers’ organizations, to ensure the use of gender-neutral terminology for different jobs and occupations in legislation and collective agreements fixing minimum wages.

Enforcement. Labour inspection. The Committee notes the Government’s undertaking to continue, as far as resources permit, to strengthen the institutional and operational capacities of the labour inspectorate, particularly through training in targeted areas. With regard to monitoring of the application of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value, the Committee once again requests the Government to provide information on any specific measures taken to strengthen the capacity of labour inspectors to detect inequalities in remuneration between men and women.

Statistics. While noting the statistical data relating to numbers of women and men officials provided by the Government, the Committee requests the Government to take the necessary steps to collect, compile and analyse information, disaggregated by sex, on the employment of men and women in the private sector and on their respective earnings in the public and private sectors, since these data are essential to enable the Committee to assess the application in practice of the principle of the Convention.