Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2003, published 92nd ILC session (2004)

Paid Educational Leave Convention, 1974 (No. 140) - Nicaragua (Ratification: 1981)

With reference to its direct request of 2000, the Committee notes the detailed information transmitted by the Government in its report indicating that 411,777 workers were granted paid educational leave in 2002 by enterprises granting scholarships. The Committee also thanks the Government for the final evaluation report of the National Technological Institute (INATEC), published in February of 2003. The Committee trusts that in future reports the Government will continue to include information on the measures taken to encourage the granting of paid educational leave (including for workers in enterprises which have not signed agreements with INATEC), in accordance with Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention. Please also continue to provide information referred to in Part V of the report form on the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice, including extracts from relevant studies, surveys or reports, as well as any statistics available on the number of workers who have benefited from paid educational leave for the purposes stipulated in the Convention, and the amounts granted.