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Pregnant Workers may be Protected Before Informing Employer of Pregnancy
...maternity leave the right to be offered any suitable available vacancy. The Advocate General’s opinion suggests that women should be given the same priority treatment if their role becomes redun...
Failing to conduct appropriate risk assessment for breastfeeding mothers is sex discrimination
...maternity leave and constitutes direct sex discrimination. Facts In Ramos v Servicio Galego de Saude, Ms Ramos worked as an accident and emergency nurse. She informed her employer that s...
Enhancing maternity pay but not shared parental pay is not direct sex discrimination
...leave with a woman’s treatment while on additional maternity leave. If that’s right, it is possible that employers who enhance maternity pay during additional maternity (i.e.after 26 weeks' leav...
Collective redundancies: no priority treatment for pregnant workers
...maternity leave has the right to be offered any suitable available vacancy. Employers are required to provide written reasons for dismissing a pregnant worker or one who is on maternity leave, b...
Tribunal wrong to decide that enhancing maternity pay but not shared parental pay was not indirect sex discrimination
...maternity but not shared parental leave should consider the aims and benefits of doing so. Whilst encouraging retention rates among women returning from maternity leave might justify this practice (fo...
Employers must be pro-active in enabling staff to take holiday, ECJ rules
...leave year in question, for example due to being on sick leave, maternity leave or because the employer has not provided for paid holiday in the contract. This case appears to extend that principle to...
Paying women on maternity leave more than men on shared parental leave lawful
...maternity leave more than men on shared parental leave lawful Employers who pay enhanced maternity pay to women on maternity leave but only statutory pay to men on shared parental leave are not acting...
Employers can pay more during adoption leave than shared parental leave
...leave less than a woman who took maternity leave or adoption leave. The employment tribunal rejected his claim, ruling that he could not compare himself to a woman on maternity leave or adoption leave...
Do employers have to provide facilities for employees to express breastmilk?
...maternity leave, Ms Mellor informed the school that she was still breastfeeding her baby and would need a private room to express her breastmilk. Despite reminders, the school failed to provide this. ...
Flexible working requests and indirect discrimination
...maternity leave, she worked full-time, five days a week, on a flexible basis as set out in a rota. While on maternity leave, she made a flexible working request, asking to work part-time, three days a...
The without prejudice rule: exaggerated allegations and unambiguous impropriety
...maternity leave. She argued that a colleague had been wrongly promoted ahead of her and she attached that colleague’s CV. Two of her emails also contained confidential information about client transac...
Failure to enhance pay for man seeking shared parental leave was direct sex discrimination
...leave can only compare himself with a woman on shared parental leave, not a woman on maternity leave. On that basis there was no less favourable treatment as men and women on shared parental leave we...
Employee who Applied for Voluntary Redundancy had to Repay Company Loan
...maternity pay if they do not return for a specified length of time. It is important that these agreements deal expressly with the circumstances in which repayment will be required, as this will help t...
EasyJet rosters indirectly discriminated against breastfeeding mothers
...maternity leave and there were no opportunities to express milk whilst they were on shift. Both employees obtained fitness to work certificates from their GPs, indicating that there was an increased ...
Discriminatory shared parental pay policy: father awarded £27,000 compensation
...leave policy provided enhanced pay for mothers, primary adopters and first surrogate parents on shared parental leave. They could receive up to 26 weeks’ full pay, followed by 13 weeks’ paid at the s...
Reasonable adjustments: no need to show adjustment will work
...maternity leave her error rate rose due, she claimed, to the change in supervisor. The Trust began a formal review procedure at the end of which it dismissed her on grounds of capability. She claime...
Employers do not have to provide childcare vouchers during maternity leave
...maternity leave The EAT has ruled that employers who provide childcare vouchers under a salary sacrifice arrangement are not obliged to provide them during maternity leave. Speedread Employers who p...
No TUPE Transfer For Employee on Long Term Sick Leave
...Leave An employee on long term sick leave who was not expected to return to work did not transfer to a new service provider under TUPE. Speedread An employee on long term sick leave who was not exp...
Redundancy and Maternity Leave: Extent of Obligation to Offer Alternative Employment
...Maternity Leave: Extent of Obligation to Offer Alternative Employment Failure to offer a suitable alternative vacancy to a redundant employee who was on maternity leave did not necessarily amount to d...
Failure to Pay Enhanced Pay to Man on Additional Paternity Leave Not Discrimination
...leave, even though it paid full pay to women on maternity leave. In Shuter v Ford Motor Co, Ford’s maternity policy provided women on maternity leave with full pay for up to 52 weeks. Its additional...