Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1994, published 81st ILC session (1994)

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

The Committee notes the Government's report and the attached documentation.

1. In its previous comments, the Committee recalled that the concept of equal remuneration applied not only to equal work, but also to work of equal value. In this respect, the Government replied that the current wording of section 78 of the Labour Code is not to be interpreted restrictively as meaning only "identical work", but rather to mean "similar" work. The Committee once again requests the Government to report on the measures which have been adopted to amend the wording of section 78 of the Labour Code so as to set out explicitly that equal remuneration also applies to work of a different nature but of equal value, in accordance with the Convention.

2. The Committee notes with interest both the text of the recent collective labour agreement concluded for the branch of industry employing the highest percentage of women workers (textiles), and the statistical information on the distribution of men and women workers in the various sectors of the economy, which were supplied by the Government. It notes that, according to the statistics, the monthly income of women workers in 1992 was significantly lower than that of men, particularly at higher wage levels. It would be grateful to receive possible explanations of this phenomenon together with the next statistics which are supplied.

3. Furthermore, the Committee once again requests the Government to supply with its next report the wage scales applicable in the public administration, indicating the distribution of men and women at the various levels.