Ben Willmott, senior public policy adviser at the CIPD, writes on the European Court of Justice ruling that workers who are sick during scheduled annual leave should be able to retake their holiday.
Publication date:
17 September 2009
This is an extremely disturbing ruling that could be impossible for employers to manage. It may be logical for lawyers, but it is a ruling completely divorced from the real world.
It is well established that employers should take on some of the risk of employees being sick on work time, but it is basic common sense that employees should in turn be willing to accept the risk that they may be sick on their holidays. A holiday resort tummy bug or an ill-timed cold is an unfortunate fact of life. None of us wants one, but why should employers be forced to award employees with extra holiday in compensation?
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