Paid Vacation If an employee in the EU dies without having claimed all the paid vacation time they were owed, their heirs can claim a payout from the employer. That's the gist of a ruling issued this morning by the Court of Justice of the European Union, the EU's top court, which was deciding a case about two German widows. Fortune
Moral of this story is....take your G*damn vacations. Now the new boyfriend and widow are the ones that will enjoy it.