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According to a new ruling by the European Court of Justice, employees now have the right to ask for statutory leave to be reallocated if it is interrupted by illness, reports the Daily Telegraph. The ruling is a new interpretation of the European Working Time Directive, following the case of Francisco Pereda, a Madrid city council worker, who was injured shortly before his annual leave was due to start and was refused a request to move his holiday. Employment lawyers warn it would be costly for businesses, with “unscrupulous” employees seeking to “bolster their holiday entitlement by simply claiming to have a cold or flu while on leave. ”According to the conservative daily, they further lament that this "could effectively be interpreted as meaning that you are only sick on your employer’s time, and not your own".
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