"At last, paid holiday for 'gig economy' workers. But what happens after Brexit?", 30 Nov 2017

The judgment handed down by the CJEU, in the case of King v Sash Windows Workshop Ltd & Richard Dollar, concerned the right to accumulate an entitlement to paid holidays for people who had not been given a right to paid time off by their employers... As lawyers have already been pointing out, the implications are enormous. This is particularly the case for workers in the so-called “gig economy”... The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) [...] has long bemoaned the impunity with which “gig economy” companies flout the law... [and] ...few consequences for companies depriving workers of their rights... This new ruling, however, has real consequences for business. The law will now recognise the millions of pounds’ worth of holidays that “gig economy” businesses owe their workers... The CJEU judgment is also a stark reminder of the impending disaster for workers’ rights that is Brexit... [W]orkers need not just EU law, but the CJEU’s interpretation of that law, for the fullest protections in the workplace.