France: final adoption of text opening up right to accrue paid leave during stoppages due to non-occupational illness

Following on from the Senate, the French National Assembly adopted the government’s amendment on paid leave on 10 April. The text will bring French domestic legislation into line with EU law on paid leave, once it has been promulgated by the President of the Republic. In September, the Cour de Cassation, the country’s supreme court, ruled that the French labour code was contrary to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Under the new law, a maximum of four weeks’ paid leave pe