Whether and when vacation becomes time-barred is a question that can of course also be of burning interest to employers: After all, whether their own employees are still entitled to vacation or not can become relevant above all if an employee leaves the company and in this context asserts claims for vacation compensation.
In this respect, the question of whether and, if so, when vacation claims can become time-barred is a matter of legal certainty for employers, but also of hard cash. For this reason in particular, the landmark ruling of the Federal Labor Court ( (Bundesarbeitsgericht – BAG, ruling dated December 20, 2022, ref.: 9 AZR 266/20) was long awaited as a landmark ruling.
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