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

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Morocco (Ratification: 1979)

Article 1(a) of the Convention. Definition of remuneration. Other benefits. The Committee recalls that section 346 of the Labour Code prohibits any gender-based discrimination with regard to wages for work of equal value and highlights, as it has in its previous comments, that the principle of equality must not only apply to wages but also to other benefits as defined in Article 1(a) of the Convention. The Committee notes with regret the absence of specific measures taken to bring the legislation into line with the provisions of the Convention in this regard. It notes that the Government, in its report, repeats its indication that the possible revision of section 346 of the Labour Code could form part of the tripartite agreement signed with the social partners on 30 April 2022, while it had already stated, in its previous report, that such a revision could form part of the previous tripartite agreement signed in 2019. The Committee requests the Government to take the necessary measures to amend section 346 of the Labour Code so that gender equality is applicable not only to basic wages but also to any other benefits, paid directly or indirectly, in cash or in kind, by the employer to the worker and arising out of the worker’s employment.

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