France: paid leave that isn’t taken because of a sick leave have to be transferred after work resumes

f the Court of Justice of the European Communities on January 20, 2009 (see our dispatch No. 090074) – which declared that national provisions ordering the loss of the right to paid leave which have not been taken during a reference period because the employee couldn’t take them – the French supreme court overruled the previous case law. It now considers that paid leaves which haven’t been taken because of a sick leave aren’t lost and have to be transferred to the employee’s return to the compa