Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

Paid Educational Leave Convention, 1974 (No. 140) - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (Ratification: 1983)

In reply to the 2005 direct request, the Government indicates in the report received in August 2008 that around 895,000 workers in the public sector benefit from a right to eight paid hours a week for academic activities and other special study leave. In the private sector, collective agreements have established the right to paid educational leave. Workers in the private sector who are not covered by a collective agreement can invoke the right to benefit from paid educational leave by referring to the exercise of this right deriving from the ratification of the Convention. The Committee invites the Government to include examples of judicial or administrative decisions involving questions relating to paid educational leave (Part IV of the report form). The Committee hopes that the Government will also include statistics showing the number of workers granted paid educational leave during the period covered by the report (Part V of the report form).