Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2004, published 93rd ILC session (2005)

The Committee recalls that the Employment Act (Cap. 226) was to undergo a comprehensive revision in a process involving social partners and stakeholders. The Committee requests the Government to provide an update on this process.

The Committee further requests the Government to ensure in its revision of the Employment Act to give effect, as previously requested, to Article 5, paragraph 4, of the Convention, counting absences from work due to illness, injury or maternity leave as part of the period of service for the purposes of determining entitlement to holiday; Article 7, paragraph 2, payment of remuneration due in advance of the holiday; Article 8, guaranteeing uninterrupted holiday of two weeks in the event of division of holiday; and Article 12, prohibiting any agreement to relinquish the right to the annual holiday with pay or to forgo such holiday.

[The Government is asked to report in detail in 2006.]