Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2007, published 97th ILC session (2008)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Colombia (Ratification: 1963)

1. Articles 3 and 4 of the Convention. The Committee asks the Government to provide information on the way in which it collaborates with the employers’ and workers’ organizations concerned in order to apply the provisions of the Convention, and in particular on the training activities relating to the principle of the Convention and the adoption of measures for promoting objective job evaluation, on the basis of the tasks involved, as provided for by Article 3 of the Convention.

2. Statistical information. The Committee asks the Government to supply in its next report the fullest possible statistical information, disaggregated by sex, in relation to paragraphs (i) and (ii) of its 1998 general observation on the Convention.

3. Monitoring of application. In its previous direct request, the Committee asked the Government to send details of the plan of action of the Ministry of Labour’s Special Labour Inspection, Supervision and Control Unit with regard to the application of the Convention and on any training courses held. It also requested information on the inspection unit’s activities to promote and enforce the principle of the Convention and on the number of complaints to judicial or administrative bodies concerning gender-based pay discrimination. The Committee notes that the Government’s report contains information of a general nature regarding the inspection unit’s activities and of the complaints lodged with no clear link to the application of the principle of the Convention. The Committee, therefore, concludes that the information supplied does not reply to its request. The Committee, therefore, repeats its request to the Government to supply information on the inspection unit’s activities in relation to the principle of equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value.