Declaration on Fundamental Principles
and Rights at Work
WORK IN FREEDOM
International
Labour Office
Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100)
The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
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:
A RTICLE 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.
A RTICLE 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.
A RTICLE 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.
Convention No. 100
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