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Should employees on long-term sick leave accrue holiday indefinitely?

Squire Sanders Hammonds
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European Union
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July 22 2011

And finally, with the holiday season upon us, it seems only right that we should highlight a recent case working its way through the European Courts which may curtail the holiday that employees can claim to accrue during periods of long-term sick leave

ECJ rules Spanish “breastfeeding” law unjustified

Squire Sanders
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European Union, Spain
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October 22 2010

In Spain female employees are allowed to take time off work - up to an hour during the day or a half-hour reduction in the working day - to feed a baby under nine months of age

German compulsory retirement age is lawful, says ECJ

Squire Sanders
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European Union, Germany
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October 22 2010

Earlier this month the ECJ gave a welcome boost to employers looking to retain a contractual retirement age when it confirmed that a provision in a collective agreement requiring employees to retire at 65 was lawful

Service-related statutory notice provision held to be discriminatory

Squire Sanders
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European Union, Germany
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February 25 2010

The notice periods to be given by employers terminating an employee's employment under German law are regulated in Paragraph 622(2) of the German Civil Code

“Having a sickly time. weather awful...”

Squire Sanders
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European Union, United Kingdom
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October 29 2009

The recent European Court of Justice decision in Pereda v Madrid Movilidad SA that a worker who is sick during his statutory annual leave is entitled to take a replacement period of leave at a later date (even outside the current leave year) has caused much consternation amongst employers and HR teams in particular, not the least because of the potential for abuse and the additional cost implications

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Should employees on long-term sick leave accrue holiday indefinitely?

ECJ rules Spanish “breastfeeding” law unjustified

German compulsory retirement age is lawful, says ECJ

Service-related statutory notice provision held to be discriminatory

“Having a sickly time. weather awful...”

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