Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2000, published 89th ILC session (2001)

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

The Committee notes that the Government’s report contains no reply to previous comments. It hopes that the next report will include full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which reads as follows:

The Committee notes the Government’s report and the information in it answering its previous direct request. It notes that the amendment of section 7 of the above Act which as to establish paid educational leave for trade union education, referred to by the Government in its report of 1987 and 1990 on this Convention, has not yet come into force. The Committee invites the Government to indicate in its next report any legislative or other measures taken or envisaged to formulate and apply a policy to promote paid educational leave in accordance with Articles 2 and 6 of the Convention.

The Government states that the length of leave and the level of financial entitlements vary according to the course organizer. The Committee would be grateful if, in its next report, the Government would provide examples of paid educational leave, indicating the modalities according to which such leave is granted, in accordance with Articles 3 and 10 of the Convention. Please provide any extracts of reports, studies, surveys or statistics that will enable the Committee to ascertain how the Convention is applied in practice (Part V of the report form).