The period of parental leave from which a worker has benefited cannot be regarded as a period of actual work for the purpose of determining entitlement to paid annual leave, the European Court of Justice ruled in a judgment delivered on Thursday 4 October (Case C-12/17).
Mrs Dicu was granted maternity leave in Romania from 1 October 2014 to 3 February 2015, then parental leave from 4 February 2015 to 16 September 2015, followed by 30 days of paid annual leave. She asked her employer to...