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The Court has held that employers may not impose on workers a restriction of their right to paid annual leave. Any practice or omission of an employer that may deter a worker from taking annual leave, as well as incentives or encouragements not to take leave are incompatible with the right to paid annual leave (243). A worker’s failure to request paid annual leave during the reference period cannot lead to the loss of paid annual leave at the end of the reference period automatically and without prior verification that the employer had in fact enabled him/her to exercise that right (244).
Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.