Since 1997, changes in UK employment law include enhanced maternity and paternity rights, the introduction of a National Minimum Wage and the Working Time Regulations, which covers working time, rest breaks and the right to paid annual leave.
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In such cases, an employee is entitled to at least one of the following ( as chosen by the employer ) : a day off within a month, an additional day's paid annual leave or an additional day's pay.
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The newspaper group pointed to a February 1999 statement by then-Trade and Industry Minister Ian McCartney in the House of Commons which said that paper boys and girls under the school-leaving age of 16 were not entitled to paid annual leave.
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The newspaper group pointed to a February 1999 statement by then Trade and Industry Minister Ian McCartney in the House of Commons which said that paper boys and girls under the school-leaving age of 16 were not entitled to paid annual leave.
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60 Furthermore, account must be taken of the fact that, under Article 7 ( 2 ) of the directive, the minimum period of paid annual leave may not be replaced by an allowance in lieu, except where the employment relationship is terminated.
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Member states shall take the measures necessary to ensure that every worker is entitled to paid annual leave of at least four weeks in accordance with the conditions for entitlement to, and granting of, such leave laid down by national legislation and / or practice.
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[Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Ainsworth ] ( CA ) [ 2005 ] IRLR 465 ( referred by House of Lords to European Court of Justice ( hearing 20 November 2007 ) Advocate General s Opinion due 24 January 2008 ) [ Entitlement to paid annual leave]
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61 A regime such as that referred to by the questions at issue may lead to situations in which, without the conditions laid down in Article 7 ( 2 ) of the directive being met, the minimum period of paid annual leave is, in effect, replaced by an allowance in lieu.
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64 By those questions, the referring courts are asking, in essence, whether Article 7 of the directive precludes amounts paid to a worker as holiday pay under a regime such as that described in the preceding paragraph of this judgment from being set off against the entitlement to paid annual leave under that article.
