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The Committee notes the Government’s report and particularly the indications it contains on the discussions held within the National ILO Council for the application of the Convention. In this regard, the worker members of the Council consider that satisfactory effect is not given to the Convention and that the Council should examine the measures to be taken to ensure adequate application. In its reply, the Government considers that the legislative provisions are in conformity with the Convention and that there is no need to amend them. Referring to its previous comments, and especially its 1993 direct request in which it noted that the provisions of the 1992 Labour Code seemed to be less satisfactory than the provisions repealed in regard to the extent of paid educational leave opportunities afforded to workers, the Committee again requests the Government to indicate the measures taken to ensure promotion of the granting of paid educational leave, in particular for general, social and civic education, in application of Article 2(b) of the Convention. Noting furthermore that the Labour Code provides that the minimum standards it lays down may be supplemented by legislative or conventional arrangements more favourable to workers, it requests the Government to supply examples of collective agreements on the granting of paid educational leave for which statistics in regard to their number are supplied in the report.

Referring to Article 6 which provides that employers’ and workers’ organizations and institutions or bodies providing education and training shall be associated with the formulation and application of the policy on paid educational leave, the Committee expresses the hope that the Government will indicate the measures taken or envisaged to give full effect to the Convention, to the satisfaction of members of the National ILO Council and will provide, as requested under Part V of the report form, indications on the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice, if possible attaching extracts from relevant studies, surveys or reports, as well as available statistics on the number of workers benefiting from paid educational leave.