Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Côte d'Ivoire (Ratification: 1961)

The Committee takes note of the information supplied by the Government in its report.

1. The Committee notes the Government's statement that, in certain cases, wages are paid partly in kind where the worker is a permanent employee and is not a native of the place where the job is located and is unable to obtain adequate accommodation for himself and his family by his own means. The Committee asks the Government to indicate whether employers must also make accommodation available for married women who are heads of family in the same circumstances.

2. The Committee notes with regret that the Government has not provided the information requested in its previous comments. It hopes that the next report will provide full information on the points raised in its previous direct request which are reproduced below:

(a) The Committee hopes that the Government will indicate in its next report whether the classification of workers in the various occupational categories set forth in the national regulations is established on the basis of an objective appraisal of jobs based on the work to be performed and, if so, the methods employed in this classification and the manner in which the principle of equal remuneration in the sense of the Convention is ensured in practice in cases where wages are higher than the minimum legal rates, particularly in branches of activity employing a high proportion of women workers.

(b) The Committee noted with interest in this connection that a project to train technicians in the evaluation and classification of jobs is under way with the participation of experts from the ILO. It hopes that the Government will not fail to indicate the action taken following this project and the criteria used in practice to determine the rates of wages that are higher than the minimum legal levels in the various enterprises (whether or not they are covered by the Inter-Occupational Collective Agreement), taking into account the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value. The Committee again asks the Government to refer in this connection to paragraphs 138 to 150 of its General Survey of 1986 on equal remuneration.

(c) The Committee examined the various decrees respecting the remuneration scales of public officials, including teachers, copies of which were supplied by the Government. It again requests the Government to provide information on the way in which the principle of equal remuneration is applied to employees in the public industrial and commercial establishments covered by Decree No. 75-150 of 11 March 1975.

(d) The Committee also examined the decisions taken by the Classification Committee regarding the applications for reclassification to higher occupational categories made by two male workers. The Committee again requests the Government to indicate whether such applications have been made by women workers and, if so, to supply copies of the decisions reached in their cases.