35Fourth, it is also clear from the Court’s case-law that Directive 2003/88 treats the right to annual leave and to a payment on that account as being two aspects of a single right. The purpose of the requirement that the leave be paid is to put the worker, during such leave, in a position which is, as regards salary, comparable to periods of work (judgment of 22 May 2014, Lock, C‑539/12, EU:C:2014:351, paragraph 17 and the case-law cited).
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