31The Court has found, in that regard, that incapacity for work due to illness is, as a rule, not foreseeable and beyond the worker’s control. That is, in essence, also what follows from 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. As is apparent from Article 5(4) of that convention, absences on account of illness must be regarded as being 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’ (see, to that effect, judgment of 4 October 2018, Dicu, C‑12/17, EU:C:2018:799, paragraph 32).
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