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

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Sao Tome and Principe (Ratification: 1982)

Article 2(2)(b) of the Convention. Minimum wages. The Committee notes the Governments’ indication, in its report, that: (1) statistics on the percentage of men and women who are paid the minimum wage and their distribution in the different economic sectors and occupations are unavailable; and (2) national minimum wages are determined by the National Council for Social Dialogue (CNCS). Reiterating the importance of the role of the minimum wage in the application of the Convention, the Committee encourages the Government to gather statistics on the percentage of men and women who are paid the minimum wage and their distribution in the different economic sectors and occupations and to provide them. It also requests the Government to provide information on how the principle of the Convention is taken into account by the National Council for Social Dialogue when determining the national minimum wages and reiterates its request for information on complaints for non-payment of the minimum wage that have been reported or detected by the labour inspectorate, and on the outcome of these cases.

Article 3. Objective job evaluation. The Committee refers to is previous comments concerning section 22(3) of the Labour Code on job description and job evaluation systems based on objective criteria, and notes the Government’s indication that those comments will be taken into account in the context of the ongoing revision of the Labour Code. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on any development concerning the revision of the Labour Code to ensure the undertaking of objective job evaluations. In the meantime, it asks the Government to take measures to: (i) put in place procedures for the formal, objective evaluation of jobs, based on objective criteria such as skills, effort, responsibilities, and conditions of work; (ii) ensure that work in the sectors and occupations where women predominate are not undervalued; and (iii) provide information in this regard.