A British employee dismissed after 25 years without a single day of vacation has obtained a record compensation of 460,000 euros in court. The court ordered his former employer to pay him all of his 827 days of accumulated leave that he had never been able to take.
On the other side of the Channel, the affair did not fail to make a lot of noise. A man who was poached by his company won a legal battle which did not go unnoticed: he obtained record compensation of 400,000 euros. Under contract, the person concerned had in fact accumulated a significant number of days of leave: the latter had never taken a vacation during his last 25 years of career within this real estate company, tell our colleagues from The Telegraph.
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The employee – named Mossadek Ageli – had joined the company in 1987. The structure was then suffering from a staff shortage… not enough to help the employee who was trying as best he could to take days of recovery and rest. His requests were constantly refused, report our media colleagues Focus. “When the difficulties in taking leave became almost systematic, I wrote to the non-resident general manager who was also general manager of the parent company in Libya,” says the person concerned. Mossadek Ageli therefore asked to make an agreement with his employer: the employee will be paid for the days of leave that he does not take.
827 days of leave in total
Problem: in 2022, the real estate company changes direction. Mossadek Ageli performs fewer and fewer tasks… until his dismissal without notice. The ax falls in 2024 for the employee, to whom it is explained that his days of leave accumulated during his last 25 years of career. A decision that the man found difficult to accept and for good reason: the latter had accumulated 827 days of leave in total…
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Mossadek Ageli therefore decided to take legal action. The court recently found that he had been the victim of ill-treatment and ordered his former employer to pay him his full holiday pay as well as compensation. The person concerned received a total of 392,000 pounds or 460,000 euros.
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