Convention (No.100) concerning Equal Remuneration for Men and Women Workers for Work of Equal Value
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The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the
International Labour Office, and having met in its thirty-fourth session on 6
June 1951, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the
principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of
equal value, which is the seventh item on the agenda of the session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an
international Convention, Adopts this twenty-ninth day of June of the year
one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one the following Convention, which
may be cited as the Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951:
For the purpose of this Convention:
(a) The term "remuneration" includes the ordinary, basic or
minimum wage or salary and any additional emoluments
whatsoever payable directly or indirectly, whether in cash or in kind,
by the employer to the worker and arising out of the worker's
employment;
(b) The term "equal remuneration for men and women workers for
work of equal value" refers to rates of remuneration established
without discrimination based on sex.
Article 2
1. Each Member shall, by means appropriate to the methods in operation
for determining rates of remuneration, promote and, in so far as is
consistent with such methods, ensure the application to all workers of the
principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of
equal value.
2. This principle may be applied by means of:
(a) National laws or regulations;
(b) Legally established or recognized machinery for wage
determination;
(c) Collective agreements between employers and workers; or
(d) A combination of these various means.
Article 3
1. Where such action will assist in giving effect to the provisions of this
Convention, measures shall be taken to promote objective appraisal of
jobs on the basis of the work to be performed.
2. The methods to be followed in this appraisal may be decided upon by
the authorities responsible for the determination of rates of remuneration,
or, where such rates are determined by collective agreements, by the
parties thereto.
3. Differential rates between workers, which correspond, without regard to
sex, to differences, as determined by such objective appraisal, in the work
to be performed, shall not be considered as being contrary to the principle
of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal
value.
Each Member shall co-operate as appropriate with the employers' and
workers, organisations concerned for the purpose of giving effect to the
provisions of this Convention.
The formal ratification of this Convention shall be communicated to the
Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration
1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the
International Labour Organisation whose ratifications have been
registered with the Director-General.
2. It shall come into force twelve months after the date on which the
ratifications of two Members have been registered with the Director-
General.
3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any Member
twelve months after the date on which its ratification has been registered.
1. Declarations communicated to the Director-General of the International
Labour Office in accordance with paragraph 2 of article 35 of the
Constitution of the International Labour Organisation shall indicate:
(a) The territories in respect of which the Member concerned
undertakes that the provisions of the Convention shall be applied
without modification;
(b) The territories in respect of which it undertakes that the
provisions of the Convention shall be applied subject to
modifications, together with details of the said modifications;
(c) The territories in respect of which the Convention is inapplicable
and in such cases the grounds on which it is inapplicable;
(d) The territories in respect of which it reserves its decisions
pending further consideration of the position.
2. The undertakings referred to in subparagraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph
I of this article shall be deemed to be an integral part of the ratification and
shall have the force of ratification.
3. Any member may at any time by a subsequent declaration cancel in
whole or in part any reservation made in its original declaration by virtue of
subparagraphs (b), (c) or (d) of paragraph I of this article.
4. Any Member may, at any time at which the Convention is subject to
denunciation in accordance with the provisions of article 9, communicate
to the Director-General a declaration modifying in any other respect the
terms of any former declaration and stating the present position in respect
of such territories as it may specify.
1 . Declarations communicated to the Director-General of the International
Labour Office in accordance with paragraphs 4 and 5 of article 35 of the
Constitution of the International Labour Organisation shall indicate
whether the provisions of the Convention will be applied in the territory
concerned without modification or subject to modification; when the
declaration indicates that the provisions of the Convention will be applied
subject to modification, it shall give details of the said modifications.
2. The Member, Members or international authority concerned may at any
time by a subsequent declaration renounce in whole or in part the right to
have recourse to any modification indicated in any former declaration.
3. The Member, Members or international authority concerned may, at any
time at which this Convention is subject to denunciation in accordance
with the provisions of article 9, communicate to the Director-General a
declaration modifying in any other respect the terms of any former
declaration and stating the present position in respect of the application of
the Convention.
1. A Member which has ratified this Convention may denounce it after the
expiration of ten years from the date on which the Convention first comes
into force, by an act communicated to the Director-General of the
International Labour Office for registration. Such denunciation shall not
take effect until one year after the date on which it is registered.
2. Each Member which has ratified this Convention and which does not,
within the year following the expiration of the period of ten years
mentioned in the preceding paragraph, exercise the right of denunciation
provided for in this article, will be bound for another period of ten years
and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention at the expiration of each
period of ten years under the terms provided for in this article.
1 . The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall notify all
Members of the International Labour Organisation of the registration of all
ratifications, declarations and denunciations communicated to him by the
Members of the Organisation.
2. When notifying the Members of the Organisation of the registration of
the second ratification communicated to him, the Director-General shall
draw the attention of the Members of the Organisation to the date upon
which the Convention will come into force.
The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall communicate
to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for registration in
accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations full
particulars of all ratifications, declarations and acts of denunciation
registered by him in accordance with the provisions of the preceding
articles.
At such times as it may consider necessary, the Governing Body of the
International Labour Office shall present to the General Conference a
report on the working of this Convention and shall examine the desirability
of placing on the agenda of the Conference the question of its revision in
whole or in part.
1. Should the Conference adopt a new Convention revising this
Convention in whole or in part, then, unless the new Convention otherwise
provides:
(a) The ratification by a Member of the new revising Convention
shall ipso jure involve the immediate denunciation of this
Convention, notwithstanding the provisions of article 9 above, if and
when the new revising Convention shall have come into force;
(b) As from the date when the new revising Convention comes into
force this Convention shall cease to be open to ratification by the
Members.
2. This Convention shall in any case remain in force in its actual form and
content for those Members which have ratified it but have not ratified the
revising Convention.
The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are equally
authoritative.
The foregoing is the authentic text of the Convention duly adopted by the
General Conference of the International Labour Organisation during its
thirty-fourth session which was held at Geneva and declared closed the
twenty-ninth day of June 1951.
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