Workers can reschedule holidays if sick during annual leave

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that workers who go on sick leave during a period that has been scheduled as annual leave should be allowed to reschedule their holidays, even if that means allowing annual leave to be carried forward into a subsequent holiday year.

 

The ruling follows a House of Lord's judgment in Stringer V HMRC earlier this year, which won employees the right to accrue annual leave whilst they were on sick leave. Last week’s ECJ ruling s... (364 more words)

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