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

Holidays with Pay Convention (Revised), 1970 (No. 132) - Sweden (Ratification: 1978)

Article 6 of the Convention. Periods of incapacity due to sickness or injury not to be counted as annual leave. The Committee notes the observations of the Swedish Confederation for Professional Employees (TCO), dated 18 November 2013, according to which the amendment introduced by the Government to section 6 of the Annual Leave Act – allegedly to simplify the legislation – was strongly criticized by the trade unions at the time, as it practically meant that if an employee was sick or incapacitated because of an occupational injury, the time on which his holiday pay is calculated was reduced by one year, and as a result, he could lose between 13 and 25 days of paid holiday. The TCO therefore considers that instead of being a simplification, the amendment was rather an important deterioration of the terms of employment for sick and injured employees. The Committee requests the Government to transmit any comments it may wish to make in response to the observations of the TCO.