Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Bosnia and Herzegovina (Ratification: 1993)

Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention. Legislative developments. In its previous comments, the Committee noted the existence of new legislation dealing with gender equality, though it did not yet have a copy of the text for examination. The Committee notes with satisfaction that the Law on Gender Equality was adopted at the state level, in May 2003 (No. 56/03), and provides specifically that discrimination on the ground of gender at work and in employment includes "failure to pay equal wages and other benefits for the same work or work of equal value" (section 8). It also provides that collective agreements and entity legislation are to be brought into conformity with the Law (sections 9 and 21). The Committee asks the Government to provide information regarding the implementation of the Law on Gender Equality, and on any progress achieved in incorporating the principle of equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value into the entity legislation.

The Committee is raising other points in a request addressed directly to the Government.