Key legal question
Whether vacation entitlement may be compensated by salary payments during employment
Extracted holding
No. Vacation may not be compensated by money during the employment relationship, except in narrowly defined exceptional cases that were not met here.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 329d(2) OR is absolutely mandatory under Art. 361(1) OR. Even for irregular or short-term work, any exception requires clear disclosure of the vacation wage both in the contract and in each wage statement; those strict conditions were not fulfilled.