Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Holidays with Pay (Agriculture) Convention, 1952 (No. 101) - Belize (Ratification: 1983)

Article 8 of the Convention. Prohibition to relinquish or forego the right to annual paid holidays. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that in the process of the current labour law reform, the Labour Advisory Board has recommended that a provision be included in the Labour Act (Chapter 297) to specify that any agreement to relinquish or forgo more than one week out of the two weeks’ statutory annual leave entitlement must be void. The Committee recalls, in this respect, that as noted in paragraph 193 of the 1964 General Survey on annual holidays with pay, the voiding of any agreement for the relinquishment of the holiday refers to the whole of the nationally prescribed holiday, whatever its length. The Committee hopes that this point will be given due consideration in the process of revising the labour legislation and accordingly requests the Government to keep the Office informed of any further developments in this regard.