Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 06/30/2016

Subject: The Court affirmed that Directive 2003/88/EC, concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time, precludes national legislation or a national practice, under which a worker who is on convalescence leave, granted in accordance with national law, during the period of annual leave scheduled in the leave roster of the establishment where he is employed may be refused, at the end of his convalescence leave, the right to take his paid annual leave in a subsequent period, provided that the purpose of the right to convalescence leave is different from that of the right to annual leave

Parties: Sobczyszyn

Classification: Solidarity - Art. 31 Working conditions: healthy - Paid leave - Art. 34 Social security - Social services for illness

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