ECJ MATERNITY CASE
March 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that European Union (EU) workers on maternity leave must not lose annual holiday entitlements, even when vacations are fixed for certain dates by collective agreement. The case focused on Merino Gómez, working for Spain's Continental Industrias when she took maternity leave from May to August 2001. That coincided with a collectively agreed annual leave period at her workshop and when - having returned to work - she applied for the holiday she had missed, the company said no. Her case was referred to ...
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