Workers treated as self-employed can carry over annual leave indefinitely

Annual leave: Worker entitled to leave accrued over full 13-year period he worked for company

Date:

20 March 2018

In The Sash Window Workshop Ltd and another v King [2018] IRLR 142 ECJ, the ECJ held that the right to paid annual leave of a "worker" who was treated as a self-employed, commission-only salesman could accumulate over an unlimited period, and that the worker was entitled to claim the accrued holiday pay on termination.