32It should be noted, first of all, that incapacity for work owing to sickness is, as a rule, not foreseeable (judgment 20 January 2009, Schultz-Hoff and Others, C‑350/06 and C‑520/06, EU:C:2009:18, paragraph 51) and beyond the worker’s control (see, to that effect, judgment of 29 November 2017, King, C‑214/16, EU:C:2017:914, paragraph 49). As the Court previously stated in paragraph 38 of the judgment of 20 January 2009, Schultz-Hoff and Others (C‑350/06 and C‑520/06, EU:C:2009:18), Convention No 132 of the International Labour Organisation of 24 June 1970 concerning Annual Holidays with Pay, as revised, the principles of which must be taken into account, as stated in recital 6 of Directive 2003/88, when interpreting that directive, counts, in Article 5(4) thereof, absences on account of illness among absences from work ‘for such reasons beyond the control of the employed person concerned’ which must be ‘counted as part of the period of service’. On the other hand, where a worker takes parental leave, that is not unforeseeable and, in most cases, is a reflection of the worker’s wish to take care of his or her child (see, to that effect, judgment of 20 September 2007, Kiiski, C‑116/06, EU:C:2007:536, paragraph 35).
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