Category: working time

Asociación Nacional de Grandes Empresas de Distribución (ANGED) v Federación de Asociaciones Sindicales (FASGA) and others (Case C-78/11); [2012] WLR (D) 194

“Article 7(1) of Parliament and Council Directive 2003/88/EC concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time precluded national provisions under which a worker who became unfit for work during a period of paid annual leave was not entitled subsequently to the paid annual leave which coincided with the period of unfitness for work.”

WLR Daily, 21st June 2012

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

Stringer and Others v HM Revenue and Customs; Schultz-Hoff v Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund Joined Cases C-520/06 and C-350/06

Court of Justice of the European Communities

“Workers or former workers who in a particular year were on sick leave and for that reason were unable to exercise their right to paid annual leave in that year, were entitled to exercise the right at a later time, or, in the case of former workers, to compensation in lieu.”

The Times, 28th January 2009

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

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Stringer and others v HM Revenue and Customs (Case C-520/06); Schultz-Hoff v Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (Case C-350/06); [2009] WLR (D) 13

“Employees who by reason of illness were not able to take paid annual leave in the year in which it was due were not for that reason to be deprived of the right to paid annual leave at a later time or, in the case of employees who had been dismissed, to a payment in lieu.”

WLR Daily, 21st January 2009

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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