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Where the employer has not put the worker in a position to exercise the right to paid annual leave, the right may not lapse at the end of an authorized carry-over period or even at a later stage if the worker becomes incapacitated for work due to illness in the course of the leave year (254). Similarly, the right may not be time-barred at the end of a three-year period which begins to run at the end of the year in which that right arose (255).
Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.