Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Togo (Ratification: 1983)

The Committee takes note of the Government's report.

1. The Committee notes the Government's statement that occupational qualification is the proper criterion for evaluating work or services to be performed. The Committee refers to the indications in paragraphs 19 to 23 and 44 to 65 of its General Survey of 1986 on equal remuneration and again asks the Government to provide information on the methods and criteria used in the job appraisal system to determine the value of work or services to be performed and to indicate whether this system uses objective criteria that ensure real equality in remuneration when men and women perform work of a different nature but of equal value.

2. The Committee notes the Government's statement that, since there is no provision which prohibits the grant of a transfer allowance to women workers when the worker concerned is a married woman, women should be entitled to such allowance. In this connection, the Committee refers to paragraphs 226 to 238 of its General Survey of 1986 mentioned above in which it indicates the role of the authorities in supervising the legality of the clauses in collective agreements and the inclusion of the principle of equal remuneration in such agreements. Since the collective agreements appear to limit the entitlement to a transfer allowance to male workers, by referring to "his wife", the Committee hopes that the Government will shortly take appropriate measures so as to remove any ambiguity regarding this matter, and asks it to continue to provide information on any progress made in this respect.

3. The Committee notes Decree No. 69-113 of 28 May 1969 establishing common procedures for the application of the general conditions of employment of the public service. It asks the Government in its next report to provide the wage scales applying in the public service, indicating the distribution of men and women in the various grades.