Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2001, published 90th ILC session (2002)

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

1. Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes with interest that the Labour Code of 1965 was substantially amended in 2000 in order to bring it into conformity with the relevant European Union legislation and the Convention. Section 1 of the Labour Code prohibits discrimination against employees on the ground of sex, inter alia, and establishes that all employers shall ensure equal treatment of all employees as regards their working conditions, including pay and other considerations (emoluments) in cash or kind for their work.

2. The Committee also notes that Act No. 1/1992 on wages, remuneration for stand-by and average earnings, which governed remuneration in all spheres except for wages in "budgetary organizations" (i.e. organizations financed from the state budget), has been amended by Act No. 217/2000. Act No. 217/2000 also amends Act No. 143/1992 on pay, remuneration for stand-by in budgetary and certain other organizations and bodies. The Committee notes that this Act requires the payment of equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value and that a job classification system will be used for determining the wages based on the same criteria for both men and women. The Committee also notes that the principle of equal pay is extended to all components of remuneration.

3. The Committee notes with interest the classifications provided in the law as to how work of the same or equal value is to be determined, and that the Act sets out the objective criteria to be used to appraise the same or comparable difficulty, responsibility, exertion, working conditions, work capacity and work performance of the employee.

4. The Committee asks the Government to provide information on the implementation of the Labour Code and both Acts regulating remuneration in the public and in the private sectors and on the application of the principle in practice.

The Committee is addressing a direct request to the Government on other relevant points.