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1. The Committee notes the Government’s detailed reports on the application of the Convention. In its reports, the Government refers to the Labour Relations Act 1996 and the Labour Relations Amendment Act 2002, as well as the Public Service Regulations 2000, which provide for paid vacation leave. The Government has also provided copies of several collective agreements, which include provisions on paid leave. The Committee recalls that the Convention requires the formulation and application of "a policy designed to promote, by methods appropriate to national conditions and practice and by stages as necessary, the granting of paid educational leave". It therefore hopes that in its next report the Government will include other information and will provide the texts (government statements, etc.) related to the formulation of such a policy, in association with employers’ and workers’ organizations (Articles 2, 6 and 9 of the Convention).

2. Article 4. Please provide updated information on the coordination of the national policy on paid educational leave with the general policies on employment, education and training, and hours of work.

3. Article 7. Please provide any available information on the amounts specifically allocated to paid educational leave during the period covered by the next report.

4. Article 8. The Committee refers to its comments on the application of the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111), and would appreciate receiving details on the measures taken to ensure that workers have equal access to paid educational leave irrespective of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin.

5. Part V of the report form. Please also include a general appreciation of the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice, including, if available, the number of workers granted paid educational leave.