Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2000, published 89th ILC session (2001)

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

1.  The Committee notes the information contained in the Government’s report. It notes with interest that in 1999, in the education, public health and social welfare sectors where women predominate, the average monthly salary ranges between 245 and 248 pesos, compared to the national average monthly salary of 221 pesos. The Government further states that the average monthly salary in sectors where women do not predominate is 215 pesos. The Committee also notes from the report that women make up 66.1 per cent of technicians and professionals who, due to the complexity of the work they perform, earn higher salaries than other workers.

2.  The Government indicates that the principle of the Convention is applied in practice in Cuba and that workers are placed in a professional grade or salary group on the basis of the job performed, its complexity and the qualifications required, without any discrimination on the ground of sex. The Government indicates that the variable part of the worker’s salary is fixed according to objective factors, such as output, the time worked, the conditions in which the job is performed and the results achieved. In order to enable the Committee adequately to assess the practical application of the principle of equal remuneration, it requests that the Government supply with its next report:

(i)  for the different jobs and occupations, for which the wage scales are established by Resolution No. 476 of 1980, details of the distribution of men and women at the various wage levels;

(ii)  statistics on the minimum wage rates and average earnings of men and women, if possible by occupation, sector of the economy, seniority and qualification level, with an indication of the corresponding percentages of women employed; and

(iii)  information on the measures taken to monitor the equality of wages between men and women.