Brussels, 22/06/2012 (Agence Europe) - A worker who becomes unfit for work during paid annual leave is entitled at a later point in time to a period of leave of the same duration as that of the sick leave. That right exists irrespective of the point at which the incapacity for work arose.
The EU Court of Justice gave this ruling, on Thursday 21 June (Case C-78/11), in response to the Tribunal Supremo (Spain's Supreme Court), which asked the CJEU whether the directive on certain aspects of...