Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1993, published 80th ILC session (1993)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ratification: 1969)

With reference to its previous direct requests, the Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its report.

1. The Committee notes the Government's statement repeated from previous reports, that in order to avoid the accumulation of certain benefits (family allowances, housing benefits), section 30 of the National Interoccupational Collective Labour Agreement (as amended in September 1980) provides that only unmarried women or women whose husbands are engaged in no known employment are entitled to all the benefits envisaged. The Government none the less adds that the accumulation principle has been omitted from the drafts of the revised Labour Code and that, accordingly, where both spouses work they are entitled, individually, to all the benefits due under the employment contract. The Committee once again asks the Government to provide information on any amendments to section 30 of the above Collective Labour Agreement which have been adopted or are under consideration, and on the progress made in the reform of the Labour Code announced in its 1987 report, and to provide a copy of the new Labour Code as soon as it is adopted.

2. The Committee notes from the Government's report that the general classification of occupations recommended by the National Labour Council and the Supreme National Conference as part of the plan for a coherent wages policy for the country, should apply to both the public and private sectors. The Committee notes that the National Labour Council was to address this matter at a forthcoming meeting, and asks the Government once again to report on progress in the preparation of a general classification of occupations and to provide a copy of it as soon as it is adopted.

3. The Committee notes that pending the above-mentioned meeting of the National Labour Council, the Government issued, on 20 October 1992, a provisional wage scale for public servants with a grid ("tension salariale") of from 1 to 10 points. It asks the Government to provide a copy of the provisional wage scale and to inform it when it is replaced by the above-mentioned general classification. It would also be grateful if, in its next report, the Government would indicate the percentage of men and women employed at the different levels of the public service.

4. The Committee asks the Government to provide recent statistical data in its next report concerning the minimum or basic wage rates and the average actual earnings of men and women broken down, if possible, by occupation, branch of activity, seniority and level of qualifications.