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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.

ARTICLE 7

1. The Director-General of the International Labour Office

shall notify all Members of the International Labour

Organisation of the registration of all ratifications 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.

ARTICLE 8

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 and acts of denunciation registered by him in

accordance with the provisions of the preceding articles.

ARTICLE 9

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.

ARTICLE 10

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 6 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.

ARTICLE 11

The English and French versions of the texts of this

Convention are equally authoritative.

(Employment Policy Convention, [July 9, 1964])

Equal Remuneration Convention

June 29, 1951

EQUAL REMUNERATION CONVENTION, 1951 *

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:

ARTICLE 1

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 recognised 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.

ARTICLE 4

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.

ARTICLE 5

The

formal

ratification

of

this

Convention

shall

be

communicated

to

the

Director-General

of

the

International Labour Office for registration.

ARTICLE 6

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.

ARTICLE 7

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:

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