ECJ 19 September 2019, joined cases C-95/18 and C-96/18 (Van den Berg en Giesen)

Sociale Verzekeringsbank – v – F. van den Berg (C-95/18), H. D. Giesen (C-95/18), C. E. Franzen (C-96/18), Dutch case

ECJ 3 October 2019, case C-302/18 (X), Work and residence permit

X – v – Belgische Staat, Belgian case

ECtHR 17 October 2019, applications no. 1874/13 and 8567/13 (López Ribalda), Privacy, Fair Trial, Unfair Dismissal

López Ribalda and others – v – Spain

ECJ 19 September 2019, joined cases C-95/18 and C-96/18 (Van den Berg en Giesen)

Sociale Verzekeringsbank – v – F. van den Berg (C-95/18), H. D. Giesen (C-95/18), C. E. Franzen (C-96/18), Dutch case

ECJ 3 October 2019, case C-302/18 (X), Work and residence permit

X – v – Belgische Staat, Belgian case

2019/49 Expiration of leave only with prior information from the employer (GE)

The Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht – BAG) has decided that the entitlement to paid annual leave only expires at the end of the calendar year or at the end of a carry-over period if the employer has previously put the employee in a position to take his leave and yet the employee has not taken the leave out of his own free will. The court held that the employer must cooperate in granting the leave. He has to encourage the employee to take his – concrete numbered – leave and inform him accurately and in good time, that the entitlement to paid leave would otherwise expire.

ECJ 18 September 2019, case C-32/18 (Tiroler Gebietskrankenkasse), social insurance

Tiroler Gebietskrankenkasse – v – Michael Moser, Austrian case

ECJ 26 September 2019, case C-63/18 (Vitali), Other forms of free movement

Vitali SpA – v – Autostrade per l’Italia SpA, Italian case

ECJ 24 October 2019, case C-35/19 (Belgische Staat), Free movement

BU – v – État Belge, Belgian case

2019/49 Expiration of leave only with prior information from the employer (GE)

The Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht – BAG) has decided that the entitlement to paid annual leave only expires at the end of the calendar year or at the end of a carry-over period if the employer has previously put the employee in a position to take his leave and yet the employee has not taken the leave out of his own free will. The court held that the employer must cooperate in granting the leave. He has to encourage the employee to take his – concrete numbered – leave and inform him accurately and in good time, that the entitlement to paid leave would otherwise expire.