Subject matter Discrimination in the remuneration of local government employees

In this case remuneration for employees is established depending on the position held and the category of qualification.

Remuneration tribunals focus on the employees covered by the Shop and Office Act, largely those in non operative grades.

At present the first stage of the reform of remuneration is being implemented the development of a uniform remuneration system for officials and employees of public administration agencies, which is one of the elements in the reform of public administration.

The Committee therefore asked the Government to indicate how the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value was ensured with respect to public sector employees.

However, taking into consideration the fact that the remuneration for employees working at various institutions, financed from the national budget, is regulated by specific legal acts, the said principle is not always followed and there are differences in remuneration for work of equal value at various institutions.

At the national level the CM establishes the distribution of financial resources to all education establishments, as well as minimum wages and conditions of remuneration for employees of these establishments.

In accordance with the new remuneration system the remuneration for civil servants and employees of public administration institutions will be established taking into account the qualification categories of positions which will be determined by assessing the position according to the job assessment methodology and the qualification category of civil servants and employees which will be awarded on the basis of the job assessment methodology.

Within the framework of the Law On Higher Education Establishments, establishments of higher education have the right to take on employees and to determine their remuneration.

142. In addition, some employees operate varying medical schemes for their employees.

Medical examinations for employees

Most Hong Kong employees freely negotiate their remuneration packages with their employers. But as a special safeguard and to protect local employees from competition from cheap imported labour foreign domestic helpers, uniquely in Hong Kong, receive a minimum allowable wage' ( the wage').

Increase of the remuneration of part time employees by 7,5 in case they receive the minimum wages, and their working time is less than 4 hours per day.

Neither are the employers allowed to discriminate against employees in employment relations, e.g. regarding remuneration, promotion, giving instructions, termination of employment contracts, access to retraining or in service training.

(i) The Shop Office Employees (Regulation of Employment and Remuneration) Act No. 19 of 1954 imposes an obligation to grant seven days paid casual leave in the event of sickness.

referred to we may say that remuneration near the level of the minimum wage was received in 1992 by around 3.4 per cent of the total number of employees (including 2.4 per cent of employees in the public sector and around 7.7 per cent of employees in the private sector) and in 1993 by 4 per cent of all the employed people (including 2 per cent of employees in the public sector and 9.4 per cent of employees in the private sector).

Inequality in remuneration for work of equal value

Equality of remuneration for work of equal value

A cultural initiative for my employees.

3) to participate in the establishment and improvement of terms of remuneration for work, the working environment, the conditions of work and the working time, as well as in the protection of the safety and health of employees

155. In the Polish sickness insurance system, special provisions allow certain professional groups (academic teachers, judges, public prosecutors, employees of research units) to retain the right to remuneration for up to one year in the case of sickness.

Directors' remuneration

A. Remuneration

Remuneration tribunals

Minimum remuneration

Average monthly wages are estimated at between 15 and 40 for Government employees, 65 to 100 for private sector employees, 75 to 150 for NGO local staff and 150 to 350 for United Nations national employees.

Pensionable remuneration for staff in the Field Service category

Public employees total Local government employees total

(b) Labour for mothers (workers and employees)

In the private sector also, entities, which fall within the purview of labour laws, have to give the same remuneration, allowances and benefits to all employees doing the same work regardless of gender.

Employers are required to ensure a leave from work for pregnant employees for pre birth medical examination without reducing the employees' salary.

148. There is also the question of remuneration for overtime.

Staff assessment rates for purposes of pensionable remuneration and pensions

(c) To receive fair remuneration for their work and training

They could not be given unequal remuneration in fact, they worked shorter hours for the same remuneration if they had three or more children to care for.

Definition of remuneration.

(i) Equal remuneration

(c) Equal remuneration

XXIV. SECRETARIAT REMUNERATION

XXIV. Secretariat remuneration

of pensionable remuneration

(d) Payment of remuneration should take place at least once a month, with the exception of components of remuneration for periods exceeding one month.

Employers who hire employees on a fixed term contract to replace women employees who are on pregnancy or confinement leave are subsidized, for the duration of the women employees' leave, with a sum equal to their insurance contribution liability for the insurance coverage of the hired employees.

Right to equal remuneration The right to an equal remuneration at the Constitutional level is granted by Article 107 of the Satversme, stipulating that every person shall have a right to receive appropriate remuneration for work performed.

Drawing attention to the broad definition of remuneration contained in the Convention, which includes these types of remuneration, the Committee asked the Government how it ensured that discrimination in remuneration as between men and women for work of equal value does not occur for the types of remuneration excluded from the coverage of the Labour Act.