(c) Length of service

C. Length of service

3. Length of service

The length of service upon agreement has to be established by the agreement of the parties.

The duration of such substitute service shall not exceed the duration of military service.

(15) The Committee is concerned that the length of alternative service for conscientious objectors is much longer than military service, and that the assessment of applications for such service is solely under the control of the Ministry of Defence (art.

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Thereafter, service conscripts become reservists until the age of 60 (WRI).

Bolivia No alternative service, and length of service is doubled to two years for those who attempt to refuse.

If military or civilian service or a service which takes the place of these compulsory services is performed during this time and if training is thus interrupted, the maximum period of receipt is extended accordingly.

Norway The length of alternative service is 16 months, whereas the length of military service is 12 to 15 months depending on the branch of the armed forces.

The length of the alternative (labour) service is 24 months.

Students may, however, request a deferral until they finish their studies, and exemption can be requested for physical disability.

(b) Paid and unpaid leave in cases where workers and employees have been drafted for regular military service or for short term military call ups (art. 134 of the Law of Military Service art. 158 of the Labour Code)

The Committee expresses its concern over the conditions for alternative service available to persons who have a conscientious objection to military service, in particular the grounds for establishing the right to perform alternative service and its length.

Personnel who have completed five years of service are also entitled to a death gratuity payable to their dependants.

When I got out of the service I brought her here.

Forced labor!

(a) Enlistment in the National Military Service companies.

(14) The Committee regrets that the right to conscientious objection is acknowledged only in peacetime, and that the civilian alternative to military service is punitively long.

The National Service Act provides, in section 24, for exemption from military service on the grounds that a person is a conscientious objector to military service.

The period of civilian service is 15 months (E CN.4 1993 68, Croatia).

of the United States of america for a period of two years, unless sooner discharged

Belize Military service is voluntary (NISBCO).

Labour sentence Prison sentence

Cyprus Imprisonment of from four to six months for those refusing military service, and from several weeks to four months for those refusing reservist exercises.

The average British soldier is on a tour of only six months Italian soldiers, on tours of four months the American military, on tours of 12 months.

Jordan Jordanian Conscript Service was suspended indefinitely in 1992 and all members of the armed forces are regular volunteers.

He was reportedly punished to limitation of service to one year, withholding 10 per cent of his remuneration and payment of 2 million rubles apos compensation to Sergey Bannikov for moral damage .

The military service is completed in terms specified by law.

All over the Pacific.

The Committee recommends that a law exempting conscientious objectors from compulsory military service and providing for alternative civil service of equivalent length be passed at an early date in compliance with article 18 of the Covenant and the Committee apos s General Comment No. 22 (48).

National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors (NISBCO)

Switzerland All male citizens are liable to perform regular periods of military service from the age of 20 to the age of 50 (55 for officers).

Iran (Islamic Republic of) Longer than normal period of military service possible suspended prison sentence (AI).

Those who refuse to bear arms are asked to serve in the administrative sector quot (E CN.4 1995 99).

If the service period is more than 12 years the full commuted pension amount is paid as the death gratuity.

Service is undertaken as compulsory military service, compulsory civilian service or compulsory national service.

Zimbabwe Recognized by section 24 of the National Service Act of 1979.

1970 1971 Military service, conscription

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At ease. Where's that service record?

You are not in the service?

Where did you serve?

Conscientious objector status is granted to a person who objects to military service based upon his conscience.