The Year Ahead: Fourteen predictions for 2014

Sarah Parkin rounds up the key legal developments and cases that employment law practitioners need to be aware of next year ‘A particular issue likely to be of concern to employers is whether they will face discrimination claims if they pay enhanced maternity pay where someone is on maternity leave but do not pay the …
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Maternity Leave: Conflicting views on surrogate mothers’ rights

Emma Burrows and Anna Scott discuss two opposing Advocate Generals’ opinions on whether surrogate mothers are entitled to paid maternity or adoption leave ‘Under UK law an employee is specifically protected from discrimination because of her pregnancy or because she is exercising the right to maternity leave. Surrogacy arrangements are not dealt with’. There is …
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