Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 11/06/2018

Subject: According to the Court, Directive 2003/88/EC concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time precludes national legislation in so far as it entails that, in the event that the worker did not ask to exercise his right to paid annual leave prior to the termination of the employment relationship, that worker loses — automatically and without prior verification of whether the employer had in fact enabled him, in particular through the provision of sufficient information, to exercise his right to leave prior to the termination of that relationship — the days of paid annual leave to which he was entitled under EU law on the date of the termination of that relationship, and, accordingly, his right to an allowance in lieu of paid annual leave not taken

Parties: Kreuziger

Classification: Solidarity - Art. 31 Paid leave

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