Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Bulgaria (Ratification: 1955)

The Committee notes that section 242 of the Labour Code, which came into force on 1 January 1987, provides that remuneration shall be determined according to the quantity and quality of the work performed by the employee and that it shall be evaluated in accordance with the results of the activities performed by the working collective of the enterprise, and the employee's personal contribution, with due consideration for the complexity and demands of the job and the conditions in which it is performed. Under section 243 of the Labour Code, equal pay shall be due for equal work. Work shall be considered equal whenever the results of it, the complexity and the demands of the job and the conditions in which it is performed are equal.

As the Committee noted in paragraphs 19 to 21, 44 to 65 and 70 of its 1986 General Survey on Equal Remuneration, the criteria of quality and quantity permit a comparative evaluation of the performance of different persons carrying out work of the same nature, but they do not provide a sufficient basis for the application of the principle of equal remuneration where men and women perform work of a different nature but which may be of equal value. The Committee therefore requests the Government to supply more detailed information on the application of the principle set out in the Convention to work of a different nature performed by men and women, and particularly on any job classification systems and evaluation criteria used, and on any re-examination of evaluation criteria that may be carried out in the light of the Convention.