Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

The Committee notes the Government’s report received in November 2008. The Committee regrets, however, that the information provided in this report is exactly the same as that contained in the Government’s previous report received in June 2003. The Committee asks the Government to provide a reply including replies to the following points raised in the Committee’s previous direct request.

1. Formulation and application of a policy. Please indicate how any policy to promote the granting of paid educational leave for the purposes of vocational training at all levels (Article 2(a)) and of trade union education (Article 2(c)) was formulated.

2. Functions of paid educational leave. Please indicate the measures taken under the paid educational leave policy to contribute to the acquisition, improvement and adaptation of occupational and functional skills and the promotion of employment and job security in conditions of scientific and technological development and economic structural change (Article 3(a)), to the competent and active participation of workers and their representatives in the life of the undertaking and the community (Article 3(b)), and the terms on which educational leave is granted for each of these purposes (see also Article 10).

3. Coordination with general policies. Please indicate the measures taken to coordinate the policy on paid educational leave with general policies on employment, education and training and hours of work, and state to what extent the implementation of the national policy on paid educational leave takes account of seasonal variations of hours of work or of volume of work (Article 4).

4. Participation of the social partners. Please describe the manner in which public authorities, employers’ and workers’ organizations, and institutions or bodies providing education or training are associated with the formulation and application of the policy for the promotion of paid educational leave (Article 6).

5. Financial arrangements. Please describe the measures taken or envisaged to ensure regular financing or arrangements for paid educational leave for the purposes of training at all levels and of trade union education (Article 7).

6. Practical information and statistical data. Please provide information on the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice, including extracts from reports, studies and inquiries or any available statistical data on the number of workers granted paid educational leave (Part V of the report form).

[The Government is requested to reply in detail to the present comments in 2010.]