The minimum annual leave of four weeks cannot be converted into paid compensation, even when it is carried over until the next year, the European Court of Justice ruled on Thursday (6 March).
The court argued that to do so would be to breach the EU law on working time, which regulates how many hours employees should work.
The Federatie Nederlandse Vakverenigingen (Netherlands trade union federation) brought a case before the European Court of Justice claiming that the Dutch minist...
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