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

Paid Educational Leave Convention, 1974 (No. 140) - Afghanistan (Ratification: 1979)

Articles 2, 3 and 6 of the Convention. Policy for the promotion of paid educational leave and the participation of social partners. The Committee notes the Government’s reply to its 2006 direct request received in August 2008. In its report, the Government refers to sections 79 and 80 of the Labour Code adopted in 2007, which provide for the payment of wages to workers who require leave for training purposes during working hours. The Government further states that the social partners were involved in the formulation and application of the policy for the promotion of paid educational leave. In this regard, the Committee recalls the requirement, set out in Article 2 of the Convention, to “formulate and apply a policy designed to promote, by methods appropriate to national conditions and practice and by stages as necessary, the granting of paid educational leave”. The Committee invites the Government to provide in its next report extracts of any other relevant policy and legislative documents which give effect to the Convention. It hopes that the report will also contain information on the provisions in force which grant paid educational leave for the purposes set out in Article 2(a), (b) and (c) and other useful documentation such as reports, studies, inquiries and statistics which will allow the Committee to gain an appreciation of the involvement of the social partners in the application of the Convention in practice (Part V of the report form).