Paid leave granted during sick leave: 5 questions to understand the issues

2023-11-20 18:23:33

A bag of knots. After years of legal battles, the Court of Cassation has ruled: any employee can obtain paid leave during their sick leave. The High Court based itself on a 2003 European directive, which has still not been transposed by the State into French law despite warnings issued on several occasions by the judges. “Our legislation on paid leave has been in contravention of European Union provisions for more than twenty years! » we observe at the CFDT. All the unions believe that it is time for France to put itself in order. Here are the implications.