Bulgarian High Court Overturns Paid Leave Use Deadline

The Bulgarian Constitutional Court has ruled the mandate to use all accumulated paid leave by the end of 2011 is anti-constitutional.

The Bulgarian Constitutional Court has overturned the Labor Code text which mandated that all paid leave, accumulated by the 2010, is used by employees by the end of 2011, otherwise it would expire.

The information was reported by the Bulgarian daily "Dnevnik" Thursday prior to the rule being officially published by the Court.

The magistrates decided the text, approved by the Parliament in July, is anti-constitutional, but declared the text introducing a 2-year deadline to use paid leave within the Constitution's frame.

The paid leave use was legally attacked by President, Georgi Parvanov and 51 Members of the Parliament from the two main opposition parties in Bulgaria – the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the ethnic Turkish party, Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) on the grounds the new rule contradicts the Constitution and international contracts and EU directives.

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