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Summary

Keywords

Social policy - Protection of workers' health and safety - Directive 93/104 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time - National rules making entitlement to paid annual leave subject to completion of a minimum period of employment with the same employer - Not permissible

(Council Directive 93/104, Art. 7(1))

Summary

$$Article 7(1) of Directive 93/104 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time does not allow a Member State to adopt national rules under which a worker does not begin to accrue rights to paid annual leave until he has completed a minimum period of 13 weeks' uninterrupted employment with the same employer.

( see para. 64 and operative part )