Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2001, published 90th ILC session (2002)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Iran (Islamic Republic of) (Ratification: 1972)

The Committee notes the Government’s report and the attached information.

1. The Committee notes the adoption of the Act exempting workshops with five or fewer employees from the application of the Labour Code. Noting that the Act has not entered into effect, the Committee invites the Government to keep it informed on the relevant developments.

2. The Committee notes the Regulation regarding Employment Assessments and asks the Government to supply information on its implementation in different workplaces. As underlined in previous comments this information is necessary in order to determine the manner in which the principle of the Convention is applied in enterprises employing only or mainly women workers, where the possibility of comparison between the work performed by men and women is necessarily limited.

3. Noting that under section 41 of the Labour Code the Supreme Labour Council is responsible every year for fixing minimum wages for the various regions of the country according to the sectors of industry, the Committee asks the Government to provide the minimum wage regulations fixed by the Supreme Labour Council. The Committee again draws the Government’s attention to its 1998 general observation and, more specifically, it reiterates its requests that the Government provide information, including statistical data, on public sector salary scales, the distribution of the percentage of men and women employed in the various occupations and at the different levels of the public sector, minimum wage rates and average monthly earnings, disaggregated by sex.

4. Noting the Government’s information on the procedure of settlement of labour disputes, which also applies to sex discrimination cases, the Committee asks the Government to supply with its next report statistics of disputes concerning contravention of the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value as well as information on how they have been settled.