Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 83rd ILC session (1996)

In its previous comments, the Committee noted that section 5 of Decree No. 60-124 of 1 June 1960, under which officials may have their entitlement to annual leave postponed for two consecutive years, and are entitled, after three years of uninterrupted service, to an accumulated holiday, is not in conformity with Article 9, paragraph 1, of the Convention, under which part of the holiday (in principle a period of two weeks) shall be taken no later than one year from the end of the year in respect of which the holiday entitlement has arisen.

The Committee notes the Government's repeated statements in its report that the possibility of accumulating annual leave entitlements is left to the personal convenience of officials working for the State and gives them a number of advantages.

Recalling that Article 9, paragraph 1, of the Convention contains in particular the principle that a minimum annual holiday must be taken within one year, the Committee trusts that the necessary measures will be taken in the near future to bring the legislation into conformity with the Convention on this point.