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Article 10

Conditions of eligibility for paid educational leave may vary according to whether such leave is intended for:

(a) training at any level;

(b) general, social or civic education; or

(c) trade union education.

See under Article 3.

Article II

A period of paid educational leave shall be assimilated to a period of effective service for the purpose of establishing claims to social benefits and other rights deriving from the employment relation, as provided for by national laws or regulations, collective agreements, arbitration awards or such other means as may be consistent with national practice.

Please indicate the measures taken to assimilate the period of paid educational leave to a period of effective service for the purpose of establishing claims to social benefits and other rights deriving from the employment relation.

III. Please state to what authority or authorities the application of the above-mentioned legislation and administrative regulations, etc., is entrusted, and by what methods application is enforced. In particular please supply information on the organisation and working of inspection.

IV. Please state whether courts of law or other tribunals have given decisions involving questions of principle

relating to the application of the Convention. If so please supply the text of these decisions.

V. Please give a general appreciation of the manner in which the Convention is applied, including, for instance, extracts from reports, studies and inquiries, and statistics on the number of workers granted paid educational leave.

VI. Please indicate the representative organisations of employers and workers to which copies of the present report have been communicated in accordance with article 23, paragraph 2, of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation.1 If copies of the report have not been communicated to representative organisations of employers and/or workers, or if they have been communicated to bodies other than such organisations, please supply information on any particular circumstances existing in your country which explain the procedure followed.

Please indicate whether you have received from the organisations of employers or workers concerned any observations, either of a general kind or in connection with the present or the previous report, regarding the practical application of the provisions of the Convention or the application of the legislation or other measures implementing the Convention. If so, please communicate a summary of the observations received, together with any comments that you consider useful.

1 Article 23, paragraph 2, of the Constitution reads as follows: “ Each Member shall communicate to the representative organisations recognised for the purpose of article 3 copies of the information and reports communicated to the Director- General in pursuance of articles 19 and 22, '

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