In a ruling delivered on Wednesday 29 November (Case C-214/16), the European Court of Justice argued that a worker must be able to carry over and accumulate unexercised rights to paid annual leave when an employer does not put that worker in a position in which he is able to exercise his right to paid annual leave.
Mr King from the United Kingdom worked for the door and window installation company, SWWL, on the basis of a ‘self - employed commission - only contract’ from 1999 until 2012....