Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2012, published 102nd ILC session (2013)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - New Caledonia

Wage gap between men and women. The Committee takes note of the overview of public sector wages published by the Statistical and Economic Studies Institute of New Caledonia in 2006. It notes the Government’s statement that no statistics are available since 2006 on either the public or the private sector. According to the 2006 statistics, the net monthly average wage gap between men and women is 19 per cent overall and 11 per cent in the private sector. The Committee notes that, in its brief report, the Government states that no measures are planned to remedy the wage gap situation. The Committee recalls that under the Convention, the State is required, as the public sector employer, to take measures to ensure the application to all workers of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value and to promote its application in the private sector. The Committee therefore asks the Government to take the necessary steps to assess the wage gap between men and women and to ensure and promote effectively the application of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value in the public and private sectors, and to provide information on any measures taken to this end.

Article 3 of the Convention. Objective job evaluation. The Committee asks the Government to indicate the measures that have been taken or are planned to encourage objective job evaluation on the basis of the work involved, so as to facilitate the application of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value.

Enforcement. Labour inspection. The Committee takes note of the Government’s statement that it has no information on the activities of the labour inspectorate regarding the application of the principle embodied in the Convention. The Committee asks the Government to provide the extracts from the annual labour inspection reports dealing with the enforcement of the labour legislation as it relates to equal remuneration for men and women (art. Lp. 141-1 to Lp. 141-9 and R. 141-1 of the Labour Code) as well as information on any activities carried out among workers, employers and their organizations to promote awareness of the principle embodied in the Convention.