Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Mexico (Ratification: 1952)

Application in practice. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government concerning its gender equality policy and asks it to continue providing information on that policy, describing in particular, the measures taken, in the context of such policies, to promote and ensure the application of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value.

Objective job evaluation. In its previous comments, the Committee encouraged the Government, when developing the equality policies envisaged in the General Act for equality between men and women of 2006, to promote objective job evaluation methods, and asked it to continue providing information on this matter. The Committee notes that although the Government provides information concerning equality policies, it does not supply the specific information requested. The Committee refers to its general observation of 2006 on the Convention and emphasizes that the adoption of objective job evaluation methods, that allow a comparison to be made between the different jobs performed by men and women, is particularly important, due to pervasive occupational sex segregation and the undervaluing of skills that are traditionally regarded as “female”. The Committee again asks the Government to provide information on the measures adopted, in the context of the equality policies envisaged in the General Act for equality between men and women of 2006, to promote objective job evaluation methods.