He had not taken even a single day of vacation... Landmark decision from the Court of Cassation in the case of 33 years of unused leave pay

Turkey’s Supreme Court 9th Civil Chamber overturned a Bursa lower court’s calculation of unused annual leave pay for a deceased accounting manager who worked 33 years at the same company without taking leave, ruling that one-third of the leave entitlement must be deemed used and the receivable recalculated accordingly. The case, brought by the manager’s heirs, had awarded pay based on the assumption that none of the 33 years of leave was taken. The ruling matters because it sets precedent for how unused leave liabilities are computed in Turkish labor disputes, potentially reducing payouts across similar cases. Watch for lower courts to apply the one-third deduction standard in pending and future leave-pay claims.