Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Iraq (Ratification: 1963)

The Committee notes the information supplied in the Government's report and the documentation annexed thereto.

1. Further to its previous comment, the Committee notes that Decision No. 41 of January 1988 fixed the minimum and maximum salary limits for a prescribed list of jobs in the State and socialist sector (including the building, agriculture and irrigation, oil, transport, communications, printing, commerce and maintenance sectors) which were, by virtue of Decision No. 150 of 1987, brought under the conditions of service of public employees (covered by Act No. 24 of 1960). The Committee notes with interest that Decision No. 41 also requires the relevant ministries and those services not attached to ministries to adopt the prescribed job descriptions and set salaries in accordance with the limits fixed (or in the case of the ministries of industry and heavy industry to classify posts and set salaries in line with the instructions concerning job evaluation); and specifies the criteria to be used for assessing the salary levels of the officials concerned.

2. While noting that, pursuant to the Constitution and the Labour Code (No. 71 of 1987), the same salary is paid to men and women without discrimination for the same work or for work of equal value, the Committee would request the Government to provide more specific indications on the practical means by which the principle of the Convention is applied when men and women carry out work of equal value but of a different nature in those sectors of employment covered by the Labour Code.

3. Further to its previous comment, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate the measures taken or contemplated to ensure that any bonuses and indemnities which fall outside the scope of Article 43 of the Labour Code (viz. those of a temporary or special nature not provided for by law or in contracts) are paid or awarded in accordance with the principle of equal remuneration.