Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2007, published 97th ILC session (2008)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Grenada (Ratification: 1994)

1. Article 3. Objective job evaluation. The Committee notes that the documentation provided by the Government (“Performance Appraisal for the Public Service”) concerns the assessment of the performance of individual employees rather than objective job evaluation as referred to in Article 3 of the Convention (i.e. an evaluation of the tasks of the different positions on the basis of objective criteria). The Committee therefore asks the Government to indicate how it promotes objective job evaluation in the public sector, and also to provide information on the measures taken to promote the use of objective job evaluation methods in the private sector as a means of ensuring that jobs in which women predominate are not undervalued.

2. Article 4. Cooperation with workers’ and employers’ organizations. In its 2006 general observation, the Committee stressed the importance of awareness raising and training on the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value and the practical aspects of its implementation, such as the use of objective job evaluation methods. The Committee, therefore, asks the Government to seek the cooperation of workers’ and employers’ organizations with a view to undertaking concrete and practical steps to actively promote equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value, including through training activities. Please indicate in your next report any developments in this regard.

3. Enforcement. The Committee notes from the Government’s report that no judicial or administrative decisions involving questions of the principle relating to the application of the Convention have been issued. It asks the Government to provide information on the number, nature and outcome of any court cases brought under section 27 of the Employment Act, as well as information on the activities of the Department of Labour to ensure compliance with this provision, including the number and nature of infringements found in the context of inspections.

4. Statistics. The Committee reiterates its request to the Government to provide statistical information on earnings, disaggregated by sex as far as possible, as set out in the Committee’s 1998 general observation on the Convention.