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

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

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 of a national policy. The Committee notes the Government’s report received in September 2013 in reply to the 2008 observation. The Government indicates that there has been no further change in the legislation affecting the practical application of this Convention since the review of the labour laws. It adds that, with regard to the formulation of a national policy, the matter has once again been brought to the attention of the relevant stakeholders before it is resubmitted to the National Labour Board for adoption; an inter-ministerial stakeholder committee will be established to discuss it, as the Government awaits comments from the social partners. Moreover, as of July 2007, employers pay 50 Kenyan shillings per employee per month; the sums are pooled into a Levy Fund. The training costs incurred by registered employers and their workers are approved by the National Industrial Training Authority, and are then reimbursed in whole or in part. The Committee expresses its hope that the Government will soon be in a position to report on the measures adopted with a view to formulating and applying a policy to promote paid educational leave (Article 2). Please provide detailed information on the activities of the National Industrial Training Authority and on other measures taken to give effect to the Convention. The Committee once again invites the Government, in association with the social partners and with the institutions and bodies providing education and training, to adopt measures to create the necessary conditions for formulating and applying a national policy to promote the granting of paid educational leave (Article 6).