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

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Panama (Ratification: 1958)

The Committee notes the Government's reports which were received in June 1988 and October 1989. While noting the concerns expressed in these reports, it notes that the information supplied does not reply at all to the comments made in its previous requests.

The Committee therefore once again requests the Government to supply full information in its next report on the measures that have been taken to promote the principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value, as provided for in the Convention.

The Committee also requests the Government to supply copies of some of the collective agreements establishing wage rates for workers of both sexes and to supply information, including copies of judicial decisions, which would enable it to assess the effect given in practice to the concept of "equal work" contained in section 10 of the Labour Code, and also to supply information on the way in which "equal conditions" as regards "efficiency" are determined for the workers concerned as set out in the same section.

The Committee hopes that the Government will not fail to supply the above information (the judicial decisions supplied with the above reports do not deal with equal remuneration) and that it will indicate the methods and criteria used by the national commission referred to in previous reports for the determination of minimum wages for various jobs. Please also supply statistics on current wages, both in the private and public sectors, since the statistics to which the Government referred in its report dated June 1987, have not been received.