Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2024, Publicación: 113ª reunión CIT (2025)

Convenio sobre igualdad de remuneración, 1951 (núm. 100) - Gabón (Ratificación : 1961)

Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention. Enforcement. Awareness-raising and training. With reference to its previous comment, the Committee notes from the Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) 2024–27 for Gabon that: (1) the Government, with ILO support, has reviewed its labour inspection system, and capacity building for the labour inspection and labour courts is envisaged to ensure effective application of labour standards; (2) The Government has adopted the “Gabon equality" strategy which, for the 2021–23 period, aimed at promoting women’s rights and reducing inequalities between women and men; and (3) several awareness-raising and training campaigns have been undertaken to combat stereotypes and show that “typical jobs” for women and men do not exist. The Committee requests the Government to provide detailed information on: (i) all measures taken to strengthen the capacities of the labour inspection and labour courts with a view to effective application of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value; and (ii) the results achieved as a result of implementation of the “Gabon equality” strategy, as well as of the awareness-raising and training campaigns mentioned above. The Committee again requests the Government to provide information on any measure taken or envisaged to train and raise workers’ and employers’ awareness of their rights and obligations in respect of equal remuneration.

Minimum wages. Domestic workers. The Committee notes from the DWCP 2024–27 that many texts aimed at regulating the world of work are in practice not respected, giving rise to problems for vulnerable groups, including women. This is particularly the case of texts applicable to domestic workers and provisions on the minimum wage. In this connection, the Committee recalls that domestic workers make up a female-dominated group of workers generally with poor working conditions, including lower pay. As a uniform national minimum wage system helps to raise the earnings of the lowest paid, it has an influence on the relationship between men and women’s wages and on reducing the gender pay gap. The Committee further recalls that the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value is to apply to domestic workers, whether nationals or non-nationals, and particular attention should be given to ensuring that domestic work is not undervalued due to gender stereotypes (see the General Survey of 2012 on the fundamental Conventions, paragraphs 683 and 707). The Committee requests the Government to provide information on: (i) the percentage of women and men who are paid the minimum wage; (ii) all measures taken effectively to ensure respect of the legal obligation to pay the minimum wage to women, especially to women domestic workers; and (iii) all cases of complaints, disaggregated by gender, of non-respect of the minimum wage submitted to or noted by the labour inspection, and the penalties imposed.

Statistics. The Committee notes that the statistics it requested following the creation of the National Agency of Statistics and Demographic, Economic and Social Studies (ANSEDES) in 2015, are still not available. In this connection, it refers to the comments it addresses to the Government in examining the implementation of the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111). The Committee further recalls that an analysis of the position and pay of men and women in all job categories, within and between sectors, is required to address fully the continuing remuneration gap between men and women (see the General Survey of 2012, cited above, paragraph 888). The Committee again encourages the Government to make all efforts to be able to collect and compile statistics, disaggregated by gender, sector of activity and occupation, on the labour market participation rates for men and women, in both the public and private sectors, as well as on their respective remuneration, and to provide the Committee with all available information in this regard.