Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1996, published 85th ILC session (1997)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Rwanda (Ratification: 1980)

1. The Committee notes the information in the Government's report on the scope of Order No. 221/09 of 3 May 1976 respecting occupational categories, the corresponding minimum wages and seniority allowances. It notes that the non-observance of the provisions of this text, which are minimum provisions, results in sanctions. It requests the Government to provide in its next report the available statistics on the violations of this text that have been reported relating to the principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers embodied in the Convention.

2. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee requests the Government to provide the information that has already been requested on the following points:

(a) the progress made in the implementation of the plan to reform the labour legislation and the labour market in the context of the structural adjustment programme and in the application of the Presidential Order organizing the placement of workers and the supervision of employment;

(b) the measures envisaged in the context of the current reform of the labour legislation to bring section 82 of the Labour Code into conformity with Article 1(b) of the Convention, which provides that equal remuneration for men and women workers refers to "work of equal value";

(c) the measures that have been taken or are envisaged in the context of the reform of the labour legislation to envisage specific penalties for any infringement of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value;

(d) the practical impact of the Presidential Circular warning employers who treat women in a discriminatory manner, particularly with regard to the payment of certain allowances, and the role played in this respect by the labour inspection services and the courts;

(e) the wage scales applicable in the public service, with an indication of the distribution of men and women at the different levels, statistics on basic wage rates and average real earnings for men and women workers in the private sector, if possible, by occupation, sector, seniority and skill level, as well as on the corresponding percentage of women; and

(f) the progress made with the job appraisal system in the public sector in the context of the current administrative reform project.