Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) - New Zealand (Ratification: 1983)

The Committee notes with satisfaction the adoption of requirements for equal opportunities employment programmes contained in a series of laws enacted since the last report, particularly in the State Sector Act 1988 and the State Owned Enterprise Act 1986. It requests the Government to provide examples in its next report of the programmes adopted in pursuance of these laws, and to indicate any progress achieved in their implementation.

The Committee also notes with interest the 1988 report of the Working Group on Equal Employment Opportunities and Equal Pay, entitled "Towards Employment Equity", which recommended the adoption of an Employment Equity Act to replace existing legislation in the field. It notes from the Government's report on Convention No. 100 that the Government has agreed in principle to the enactment of an Employment Equity Act which would incorporate the concepts of pay equity and of equal employment opportunity, and that an implementation committee should be established to consider the matter further. Please indicate in the next report any further developments in this respect.

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