Observación (CEACR) - Adopción: 2025, Publicación: 114ª reunión CIT (2026)

Convenio sobre igualdad de remuneración, 1951 (núm. 100) - Costa Rica (Ratificación : 1960)

The Committee notes the observations made by the Costa Rican Federation of Chambers and Associations of Private Enterprise (UCCAEP), transmitted with the Government’s report. It also notes the observations of the Confederation of Workers Rerum Novarum (CTRN), the Costa Rican Workers’ Movement Central (CMTC) and the Juanito Mora Porras-ANEP Social Centre (CSJMP), received on 1 September 2025. The Committee requests the Government to provide its comments in this respect.

Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention. Principle of equal remuneration for women and men for work of equal value. Legislation. The Committee notes that the Government recalls that Act No. 9677 of 2019 sets forth the obligation to recognize the same wage for work of equal value (section 14). The Committee observes, however, that this section provides that “women shall have the right to equal wages to men, in both the private and public sectors, for work of equal value for the same employer”. In this respect, the Committee recalls that in order to give full effect to the principle of the Convention, the comparison between jobs must also be made among different employers. In this context, the Committee requests the Government to take the necessary measures to ensure that the principle of equal pay for work of equal value can be applied more widely than to a single employer, and to provide information in this respect.

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