Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2022, published 111st ILC session (2023)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Algeria (Ratification: 1962)

Article 3 of the Convention. Objective job evaluation. Collective agreements. Private sector. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the method for the classification of jobs in the private sector provided for by the framework collective agreement for the private economic sector of 30 September 2006.

Article 4. Cooperation with employers’ and workers’ organizations. The Committee requests the Government to indicate whether activities to raise awareness and provide information on equal remuneration for men and women, and particularly on the concept of “work of equal value”, are conducted for employers’ and workers’ organizations or by these organizations for their members, or if such activities are envisaged, and to provide details of any such activities.

Enforcement. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that the labour inspection services have not found any cases of unequal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value and that the courts have not delivered any decisions on the matter. The Committee considers that situations such as this are usually more likely to result from a lack of knowledge regarding the right to equal pay for work of equal value and so are not necessarily indicative of a situation where there is full compliance with the principle of equal pay for work of equal value as set out in the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide information on:

• (i)training and education for members of the labour inspection services regarding the principle of equal pay for work of equal value as set out in the Convention;
• (ii)the measures taken by the labour inspectorate to detect and put an end to any infringements of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value;
• (iii)the number and nature of infringements of section 84 Act No. 90-11 of 21 April 1990 concerning to labour relations (equal remuneration among workers without discrimination for work of equal value) identified by the labour inspectorate; and
• (iv)the number, nature and outcome of pay discrimination cases dealt with by the courts. It also requests the Government to provide information on the measures taken or envisaged to provide information and raise awareness among workers of the procedures and remedies available regarding equal remuneration between men and women, with a view to promoting their access to justice.