The EU-court line of Finland at the request of: in the Long years of the holiday the illness may remain partially on

the Finnish annual holiday law is EU law in line with the, decided by the European court of justice Tuesday in a preliminary ruling. The court held that EU law an employee is entitled to four weeks paid annual leave, but the member states themselves decide on them over the holiday week of regulation.

Thus, the private sector employee is not on annual leave when ill to move the holiday a day later to be held more than four weeks of vacation with regard to.

for Example, if the employee has five weeks of paid annual holiday, which he got sick one week, he's not allowed to transfer the fifth week of vacation a day later to be kept.

the Finnish labour court applied EU-court ruling in the matter.

the background of the ACP and the port operators association's dispute

the EU-court settlement in the background is the employer and the workers ' dispute.

the Employee could spend five weeks of paid annual holiday for a week, until he got sick. Her writing was the week of sick leave, and he asked from his employer, that period of illness, lost six vacation days to be transferred to a different period. The employer does not so agree, but I appeal to the industry collective agreement and the annual leave act. Thus, six sick days were deducted from the employee's vacation.

the unions in the Automotive and transport workers ' union AKT raise the labour court proceedings of the case. The labour court in turn sent the ACP and the employer side representing the port operators association's dispute between the European union court of justice.

in the holiday act was changed to its present shape Juha Sipilä (kesk.) the government, says the confederation of counsel Markus Äimälä .

– the court has taken the position that the current Finnish annual holiday law is EU law. Four holiday weeks is protected because it comes from the working time directive, and no disease can take that away. But EU law does not protect against four weeks to in excess of time, but member states may do with it as I see fit, Äimälä tell.

– that is, even set the most stringent conditions for its use, for example, by adjusting that of the fifth week can lose, if its during ill.

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