Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 82nd ILC session (1995)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Cameroon (Ratification: 1970)

Further to its previous direct requests, the Committee notes the information contained in the report.

1. The Committee notes that the Government reiterates its previous statements to the effect that the results of the general census of the population carried out in 1987 are still not in its possession and that it will supply statistics on jobs in which there is a heavy concentration of women, as soon as possible. In view of the fact that, even if they are finally published, the results of the general census of the population carried out seven years ago will be very outdated and should be brought up to date, the Committee once again hopes that the Government will endeavour, in collaboration with the organizations of employers and workers, to compile data on earnings and related information and to analyse it with a view to gaining a more detailed knowledge of the nature and extent of existing inequalities, and to providing a basis for the formulation of measures to eliminate them, as recommended in paragraph 248 of the 1986 General Survey on Equal Remuneration. It requests the Government to supply in its next report the wage scales in occupations and sectors in which a large proportion of women are employed, with an indication of the distribution of men and women at the various levels, in order to be able to assess the manner in which the principle set out in the Convention is given effect in practice.

2. The Committee notes that, according to the report, the minimum wage has been fixed since 1992 by a Decree issued after the National Labour Advisory Commission has given its opinion, and that the occupational categories and wages concerned are determined by negotiation in the framework of collective or enterprise agreements. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would supply with its next report copies of the collective agreements in force which determine wage levels in sectors employing a large number of women, with an indication if possible of the percentage of women covered by these collective agreements and the distribution of men and women at the various levels. In particular, it would like to receive copies of the collective agreements concluded in enterprises undertaking public works and agricultural, forestry and processing activities which were referred to as being attached to the report, but which have not been received.