2024/5 German holiday law can apply to a managing director of a private limited company (GE)

2024/5 German holiday law can apply to a managing director of a private limited company (GE) Recent German rulings, following several ECJ decisions, require employers to inform employees about their holiday entitlement and the risk of losing it if not used by certain deadlines. If employers fail to do so, the entitlement remains valid. In the case at hand, the German Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht, the ‘BAG’) needed to decide if a managing director was considered an employee under the Federal Vacation Act.