France’s highest court has just corrected a legislative difference vis-à-vis European law where French employees’ entitlement to paid leave following 12 months of accident at work or non-occupational illness had, until now, been suspended.
On 13 September France’s highest court (Cour de Cassation) published five rulings which, taken together, offer ‘employees’ rights to paid leave greater effectiveness.’ The appeals concern periods of non-occupational illness and periods of workplace accident related-inactivity extending beyond a year, which had resulted in the suspension of employment contracts (article L3141-5 of the French Labour Code), during which the employees believed they had acquired paid leave entitlements. In this case
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Antoine Piel
Section Head at Mind HR