Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Chile (Ratification: 1971)

Gender remuneration gap. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government on the ministerial initiative known as the “second version of the Labour Information System (SIL 2.0)”, which will allow monitoring of the most relevant labour market figures and indicators, disaggregated by sex, age and taking into account disability. It will also provide a basis for observing and following the trajectory of average wages in the economy and of the minimum wage. The Committee asks the Government, when the Labour Information System becomes operational, to provide statistical data on the employment rate of men and women, and their respective wages by branch of activity and sector of occupation, and any other information that provides a basis for assessing trends in the gender remuneration gap.

Article 2 of the Convention. Measures adopted to promote the principle of the Convention. The Committee notes the Government’s reference to the IGUALA programme, which is used in mining enterprises, through which measures are taken to eliminate stereotypes, and incentives are provided for the recruitment of women and their promotion to decision-making positions. The Government provides statistical data on the recruitment of women in the various mining establishments and the practical measures adopted to eliminate any discrimination on grounds of gender in those establishments. However, the Committee observes that the Government has not replied to the requests made in its previous comments. The Committee therefore asks the Government to:

• (i) continue providing information on the practical measures adopted in enterprises and in the public sector, including those adopted in the context of the IGUALA programme, with a view to eliminating occupational gender segregation; and
• (ii) provide information the implementation of the triennial plan for good labour practices which the Committee noted in its previous comments.

Collective agreements. The Committee asks the Government to provide information on the collective agreements which provide for the payment of equal remuneration for work of equal value.

Objective job evaluation. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government that the Directorate of Labour, in Decision No. 1187/018 of 10 March 2010, referred to the requirement to describe the jobs existing in an enterprise, as envisaged in Act No. 20348 respecting remuneration, and considered that the “essential technical characteristics of jobs” referred to in the Act relate to the manner in which jobs have to be described, and are to be understood as distinctive characteristics of the job or function that are specific, exclusive, permanent and invariable, and on the basis of which they can be distinguished from other tasks to be performed within the enterprise. The Committee asks the Government to indicate the way in which it is ensured that such descriptions are effectively based on objective and non-sexist criteria, and do not reflect the undervaluation of work principally carried out by women. The Committee also asks the Government to provide information on any other measures adopted in collaboration with workers’ and employers’ organizations for the establishment of objective job evaluation methods.