Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Sierra Leone (Ratification: 1968)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Articles 1 to 3 of the Convention. Application in law and practice. The Committee notes from the Government’s report that the Draft Employment Act, prepared with ILO assistance, has not yet been finalized due to structural difficulties and lack of capacity. The Government also indicates that the same difficulties have prevented the Government from collecting data and preparing surveys, and from undertaking a national evaluation of jobs. The Committee takes note of the Government’s request to the ILO for technical assistance on these issues with a view to promoting and ensuring the application of the Convention and hopes that such assistance could be provided in due course.

The Government is asked to continue to provide information on the measures taken: (1) to finalize the ongoing legislative reforms, including the principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value; (2) to promote objective evaluation of jobs on the basis of the work performed; and (3) to assess the current status of the application of the Convention in the country through data collection, studies and surveys.