Brussels, 22/11/2011 (Agence Europe) - A worker who has been unfit for work for a number of consecutive years cannot accumulate unlimited annual paid leave entitlements. Thus, national rules may set a temporal limit on the accumulation of unused entitlements to paid annual leave acquired during a period of unfitness for work. However, the period set by that limit must be substantially longer than the reference period in respect of which it is granted.
That is the substance of the ruling...