Netherlands: impact of the ECJ ruling on sick employees’ paid leave

sor of Labor Law at the Leiden University, thinks that the law on the paid leave of sick employees must be reformed after the ECJ ruling of January 20 which stated that laws which reduced sick employees’ right to paid leave was contrary to Community Law (see our dispatch No. 0900074). This ruling has a major impact in a country where 10% of active people are on a long sick leave. (Ref. 090277)

• Will the ruling rendered by the European Court of Justice (see our dispatch No. 090074) on sick...