HM Revenue and Customs v Stringer and others

long-term sick leave | annual leave | holiday pay

The Advocate-General has said that workers who are on long-term sick leave should continue to accrue statutory annual leave, but that they should not be able to take this paid leave during the period of the sick leave.

The case of Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Ainsworth and others [2005] IRLR 465 CA (as it was known before the English courts) concerned two situations.