EU: new decree on the right to postpone annual leave when it overlaps with sick leave for incapacity for work

The conflict burst out because of the difference in the interpretation of superstores’ collective agreement 2009-10 in Spain by the trade unions, which ended up turning to the ECJ with the following prejudicial question: should Directive 2003/88 on the organization of working time (which the Court has repeatedly used to reaffirm that the right to annual leave was a social right of the EU with a special importance) be interpreted as precluding national provisions under which a worker who becomes unfit for work during a period of paid annual leave is not entitled subsequently to the paid annual leave which coincided with the period of unfitness for work?
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up turning to the ECJ with the following prejudicial question: should Directive 2003/88 on the organization of working time (which the Court has repeatedly used to reaffirm that the right to annual leave was a social right of the EU with a special importance) be interpreted as precluding national provisions under which a worker who becomes unfit for work during a period of paid annual leave is not entitled subsequently to the paid annual leave which coincided with the period of unfitness for w

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