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

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Guatemala (Ratification: 1961)

Article 3 of the Convention. Objective job evaluation. The Committee notes the Government’s reference to measures adopted for minimum wage fixing, as well as to current legislative initiatives to reform the Civil Service Act and the Executive Body Act with a view to reorganizing the public administration. The Committee notes however that the Government does not refer to measures adopted to ensure the application of the principle of the Convention. Recalling once again its 2006 general observation on the Convention, the Committee emphasizes, in order to give full effect to the principle of the Convention, the importance of using objective job evaluation methods that enable various jobs to be compared on the basis of factors which are free from gender bias, so as to ensure that work predominantly performed by women (“female jobs”) is not undervalued and that women receive remuneration which is equal to remuneration for work of equal value performed by men. The Committee once again asks the Government to supply information on the measures taken or envisaged to ensure that, when determining wage rates, objective job evaluation is applied in the public sector and is promoted in the private sector. It also asks the Government to supply information on the reform of the Civil Service Act and the manner in which it is ensured that the job classification system if free from gender bias.

Training and dissemination. The Committee takes note of the dissemination activities carried out by the Government. It observes that these are based on the principle of equal wages for equal work and refers to its comments on the principle of the Convention made in its general observation in 2006. The Committee asks the Government to ensure that training and dissemination activities refer adequately to the principle of the Convention and to provide information on developments in this regard.

Parts III–IV of the report form. The Committee asks the Government to provide information on the findings of the inspections carried out, as well as on any court or administrative decisions relating to the application of the Convention.