Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Ecuador (Ratification: 1957)

The Committee notes that the Government's report contains no reply to its comments. It hopes that the next report will include full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

The Committee refers to Article 78 of the Labour Code which provides that equal remuneration is to be paid for work of equal value without discrimination on grounds of sex but that skill and experience in the performance of work shall be taken into account in the calculation of the remuneration. In this connection, the Committee refers to the explanations in paragraphs 19 to 21 and 44 to 65 of its 1986 General Survey on equal remuneration. It recalls that the principle laid down in Article 2 of the Convention refers to work of equal value and points out that while evaluation criteria such as a worker's skill or output allow an objective appraisal of the performance of different persons engaged in similar work they do not constitute a sufficient basis for the application of the principle laid down in the Convention, particularly when men and women, in practice, perform work which is different but of equal value.

The Committee requests the Government to indicate any measures taken or contemplated to ensure that, in practice, men and women receive equal remuneration, particularly when their work is different but of equal value.