1986, Equal Remuneration: Table of Contents


Description:(General Survey)
Convention:C100
Recommendation:R090
Subject classification: Equal Remuneration
Subject classification: Women
Document:(Report III Part 4B)
Session of the Conference:72
Subject: Equality of Opportunity and Treatment
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Document No. (ilolex): 251986G01

Table of Contents

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Chapter I. Introduction 1-12

Background to the survey 1-6

Ratifications -- prospects and difficulties 7-8

Available information and arrangement of the survey 9-12

Chapter II. Scope and requirements of the Equal

Remuneration Convention and Recommendation 13-31

Section 1. Definitions 14-23

(a) Remuneration 14-17

(b) Workers 18

(c) Work of equal value 19-21

(d) Discrimination based on sex 22-23

Section 2. The role of governments in the

application of the principle of

equal remuneration 24-30

(a) Scope of the State's obligation to ensure

the application of the principle of

equal remuneration 25-28

(b) Scope of the State's obligation to promote

the application of the principle of

equal remuneration 29-30

Section 3. The role of employers' and

workers' organisations 31

Chapter III. Constitutional and legal provisions

giving general effect to the principle 32-101

Section 1. Constitutional provisions 32-39

Section 2. Legislative provisions 40-101

A. General developments 40-43

B. Concepts of equality 44-78

I. Comparing jobs 45-65

(a) The basic formulas: from equal

remuneration for "the same work" to equal

remuneration for "work of equal value" 45-50

(b) Further criteria 51-62

(i) Hours of work and seniority 51

(ii) From performance appraisal

to job evaluation 52-62

(c) Defining work of equal value 63-65

II. Defining discrimination 66-70

III. Reach of comparison 71-76

IV. Protective provisions 77-78

C. Defining remunerationsions 79-94

I. General principles 80-84

II. Specific elements 85-92

III. Centrally fixed remuneration 93-94

D. The scope of legislation 95-99

E. The indivisibility of equality 100-101

Chapter IV. Implementing the principle: The tools 102-198

Section 1. Bodies to promote, enforce or supervise

implementation of the principle 103-131

(a) Labour inspection 103-106

(b) Specialised bodies to supervise, enforce or

promote implementation of the principle 107-118

(i) Powers of enforcement 110-116

(ii) Power to review legislation 117

(iii) Effectiveness of specialised agencies 118

(c) The courts: Interpretations of the principle 119-131

(i) Definition of remuneration 125-128

(ii) Indirect discrimination 129

(iii) Past discrimination 130

(iv) Contemporaneous work 131

Section 2. Co-operation with employers' and

workers' organisations 132-137

Section 3. Objective evaluation of jobs 138-152

(a) Methods of job evaluation 139-142

(i) Non-analytical methods:

Ranking, grade description 140

(ii) Analytical methods: Point rating,

factor comparison 141-142

(b) The extent and levels at which

job evaluation is practised 143-144

(c) Limitations of job evaluation 145

(d) Use of job evaluation in applying

the principle of the Convention 146-149

(e) Prospects 150-152

Section 4. Control of the legality of clauses in

individual and collective agreements 153-165

(a) Registration and approval of

collective agreements 153

(b) Extending collective agreements 154-155

(c) Control of legality by labour inspection 156-157

(d) Action through public contracts

(contract compliance) 158-165

Section 5. Remedial action 166-179

(a) Right of individuals to bring a complaint 166-170

(i) Burden of proof 167-168

(ii) Protection against reprisals 169

(iii) Financial assistance to claimants 170

(b) Exercise by trade unions of right of complaint 171-172

(c) Ex officio 173

(d) Effect of decision by responsible authority 174-179

(i) Nullity of discriminatory provisions in

individual and collective agreements 175

(ii) Class actions 176-177

(e) Sanctions 178-179

Section 6. Other factors to facilitate the

application of the Convention 180-198

(a) Education and employment 181-190

(i) Education in schools 182-184

(ii) Vocational training and guidance 185-186

(iii) Access to and promotion in employment 187-190

(b) Welfare and social services 191-198

(i) Maternity protection 191-192

(ii) Family responsibilities 193-196

(iii) Publicity, information and investigation 197-198

Chapter V. Problems and progress observed in

the application of the principle

of equal remuneration 199-243

Section 1: Application of the principle in

the public sector 199-215

A. The public administration as employer 199-201

B. The principle of equality of remuneration in

the standards applicable to the public service 202-205

C. Some examples of problems encountered and

progress achieved in the public sector 206-214

D. Supervisory machinery for the application

of the principle in the public sector 215

Section 2. Application of the principle in

the private sector 216-243

A. The principle of equality of remuneration

within the framework of minimum wages 217-224

I. Women's wages: Remaining differentials

and progress made towards equal rates 218-223

II. Payment of the minimum wage in practice 224

B. The principle of equal remuneration

in industrial awards 225

C. The principle of equal remuneration in

collective agreements 226-240

I. Inclusion of the principle in

collective agreements 227-231

(a) Agreements devoted to the principle of

equal remuneration or equal treatment 227

(b) Conventions referring to the

principle of equal remuneration

or equal treatment 228-231

II. Some problems and progress observed

in the application of the principle

in collective agreements 232-240

(a) Direct forms of discrimination:

wage scales differentiated on

grounds of sex 232-236

(b) Indirect forms of discrimination 237-240

D. The principle of equal remuneration in

individual labour contracts and effective

wages 241-243

Chapter VI. Conclusions 244-262


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