Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2024, published 113rd ILC session (2025)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Guyana (Ratification: 1975)

Articles 1(b) and 2 of the Convention. Equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal “value”. Legislation. The Committee recalls that section 2(3) of the Equal Rights Act No. 19 of 1990 provides for equal remuneration for the “same work” or work of the “same nature”, and that it requested the Government to bring this provision into conformity with the Convention and align it with the Prevention of Discrimination Act No. 26 of 1997 (section 9(1)). It also recalls the Government’s indication, in its previous report, that it had constituted the Law Reform Commission and that both the Equal Rights Act, Cap. 38:01, and the Prevention of Discrimination Act, Cap. 99:08, were then under review. Therefore, the Committee regrets that the Government does not provide information on any progress made in this regard. The Committee urges the Government to give full legislative expression to the principle of equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal “value” and provide information on any progress made in this regard.

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