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

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Madagascar (Ratification: 1962)

Remuneration gaps. The Committee notes that, according to the data published in the report on the 2005 Periodic Household Survey, wages for women are considerably lower than those for men (approximately 750,000 ariayry per year for women and 1,147,000 ariayry per year for men), the gender wage gap being more pronounced in managerial posts. The ratio between the average male and average female wage is more than 1.7 for managerial staff, 1.3 for unskilled workers and 1.1 for skilled workers. The Committee also notes that one of the objectives of the “National gender and development action plan (2004–08)” is to reduce the gender gap in the areas of employment and wages, particularly through information campaigns and training and the establishment of partnerships with advisory and guidance structures for employment. The Committee asks the Government to supply information on the steps taken in this context to reduce gender wage gaps and the results achieved. It also asks the Government to supply any available recent statistics on remuneration for men and women in the different sectors of the economy and at different levels of responsibility in the private sector, and also in the different categories of the public service.

Article 3 of the Convention. Objective job evaluation. The Committee asks the Government to supply information on the measures taken or contemplated to promote, in collaboration with the employers’ and workers’ organizations, the use of objective job evaluation methods, on the basis of the tasks involved and objective, non-discriminatory criteria, in the private and public sectors. The Committee also asks the Government to supply information on any survey or study undertaken, if applicable, in order to analyse the content of jobs in certain sectors, along the lines of those implemented with the technical assistance of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and the ILO, with respect to agriculture, the agri-food sector and public works.

Labour inspection. In view of the lack of any reply on this point, the Committee once again asks the Government to supply detailed information on the advisory and monitoring activities undertaken by the labour inspectorate to prevent and take action against discriminatory treatment of men or women, including any extracts from inspection reports relating to this issue. The Committee also asks the Government to indicate the measures taken or contemplated in the context of the training of labour inspectors to increase their ability to identify and address wage discrimination.

Practical application. With respect to practical application, the Committee notes the Government’s indication that there is an exact correspondence between the lowest category of manual workers and non-manual workers. The Committee asks the Government to clarify how such correspondence relates to ensuring equal remuneration between men and women for work of equal value.