Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2018, published 108th ILC session (2019)

Paid Educational Leave Convention, 1974 (No. 140) - North Macedonia (Ratification: 1991)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that the next report will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous comments initially made in 2013.

Repetition

Formulation and application of a policy designed to promote the granting of paid educational leave. The Committee notes the Government’s report received in October 2013 in which the Government reiterates that the basis for obtaining the right to paid absence due to education is defined in the Labour Law and can be further defined at the sectoral level in collective agreements or at the enterprise level with the employer. The Committee also notes that, in response to its previous comment, the Government indicates that there are no special provisions for particular categories of workers or for workers in special categories of enterprises (Article 9 of the Convention). Moreover, the Committee understands from the Government’s report that, according to the Labour Law, payment of absence for education is borne by the employer. The Committee invites the Government to provide in its next report information on the formulation and implementation of a policy to promote the granting of paid educational leave (Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention). Please also indicate how this policy is coordinated with general policies on employment, education and training, and hours of work (Article 4). It also requests the Government to specify the conditions to be fulfilled by workers in the private and public sectors to be granted paid educational leave for the purposes of the Convention (Article 10). Please also give a general appreciation of the manner in which the Convention is applied, by providing, for example, extracts from reports, studies and inquiries, and statistics on the number of workers, disaggregated by sectors of activity, granted paid educational leave (Part V of the report form).

Article 6. Participation of the social partners. The Committee once again invites the Government to describe the manner in which employers’ and workers’ organizations are associated with the formulation and application of the policy for the promotion of paid educational leave.