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However, the Working Time Directive does not preclude the loss of the right to paid annual leave, if the employer is able to discharge the burden of proof, as a result of which it appears that the worker refrained deliberately and in full knowledge of the ensuing consequences from taking the paid annual leave to which he or she was entitled after having been given the opportunity to exercise this right (250).
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