Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Poland (Ratification: 1954)

1. The Committee notes from the Government's report that as a result of legislative amendments (abrogation of the Act of 26 February 1982 on socio-economic planning and consequent repeal of the Ministerial Order respecting job evaluation (Text No. 355, D.U. No. 61/90)) the legislation now in force provides for enterprises to carry out independently pay policies as well as determine the classification of workers according to the nature, quantity and quality of the work and the conditions prevailing in the enterprise. (Text No. 407, D.U. No. 69/90.) The Committee has also noted that according to the article enclosed with the Government's report ("Pay Equality of Women and Men in Poland" by Dr. Z. Czajka) the physical effort involved in work appears to be an important factor in differentiating wages between women and men.

The Committee requests the Government to indicate the measures taken to ensure that individual enterprises evaluate, describe and grade jobs according to criteria that take into account those factors most prevalent in the work done by women. Bearing in mind that only work of the same kind can be compared comparatively by the standards of quantity and quality, the Committee also asks the Government to specify more fully the criteria relied upon to compare the requirements of different work undertaken by women and men in the same enterprise. In regard to these questions, the Committee requests the Government to indicate whether the provisions to introduce uniformity into methods of job evaluation, as described in the Government's previous report, continue to be applied. (viz. Regulation No. 29 of the Minister of Labour, Wages and Social Affairs of 11 April 1987 (Text No. 2, D.U. No. 1/87).)

2. The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide information concerning trends in the male/female earnings differential.