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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9822

21 January 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
Sick leave must not prevent workers' access to paid holidays

Brussels, 20/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - Workers cannot be denied their paid holidays if they have been on sick leave. This is the European Court of Justice's (ECJ) conclusion made in a ruling on Tuesday 20 January in two joint cases, one German (C-350/06) and the other British (C-520/06). According to the subsidiarity principle, member states have a certain amount of self-management in labour law but according to an ECJ press release, modalities in exercising this law with regard to paid...

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