The contribution discusses recent case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (2021-2026) and the Supreme Court of Slovenia (2025-2026) concerning issues of working time and annual leave. More specifically, it concerns cases dealing with delineation between working time and a period of rest, time of travel as part of working time, measuring working time, separation of daily and weekly periods of rest, offsetting working hours in a reference period, horizontal direct effect of the directive and the CFREU, the transfer period of annual leave, (dis) connection of annual leave to a period of quarantine, (ir)relevancy of the reasons for employment contract termination, to cases of annual leave grounded in employer’s non-compliance with their standard of care to put workers in a position to actually make use of their annual leave, whether annual leave compensation claims may be time-barred, as well as to consequences of unlawful dismissal in relation to annual leave.
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