Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Slovakia (Ratification: 1993)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It must therefore repeat its previous observation which read as follows:

Article 1(b) of the Convention. Work of equal value. The Committee recalls its previous observation in which it noted that section 119(3) of the Labour Code, which provided for equal wages for work of an equal level of complexity, responsibility and difficulty, performed under the “same working conditions and upon achievement of the same efficiency and work results”, had been amended in 2007 to guarantee “equal wages for men and women for equal work or work of equal value”. The Committee notes that section 119(2) of the Labour Code, as amended in 2007 by Act No. 348/2007 Coll., now states that women and men have the right to equal pay for like work or work of equal value, which is considered as work of the same or comparable complexity, responsibility and arduousness, performed in the same or comparable working conditions, producing the same or comparable productivity and results for the same employer. Furthermore, section 119(3) states that if a system of job evaluation is being used, this must be based on the same criteria for men and women without sex discrimination; the employer may use other objectively measurable criteria in addition to those given in paragraph 2 if they can be applied to all employees without regard to sex. The Committee asks the Government to confirm that the wording “comparable working conditions, productivity and results” permit a comparison between jobs performed by men and women that are of an entirely different nature but nevertheless of equal value. It also asks the Government to provide copies of judicial decisions concerning the application of section 119 of the Labour Code, and in particular those decisions which show how the courts have interpreted the wording “comparable working conditions, productivity and results”.

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

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the near future.