Sex discrimination: Comparing like with like – shared parental leave and enhanced maternity pay

Ed Bowyer and Jo Broadbent discuss the EAT’s recent ruling on whether failure to enhance shared parental leave pay is discriminatory ‘The enhanced maternity pay was “special treatment offered to a woman in connection with pregnancy or childbirth” and could not result in a claim of sex discrimination.’ It is seven years since the government …
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Additional Paternity Leave: Father time

Paul Harrison and Stephen Ratcliffe discuss the impact of the Additional Paternity Leave Regulations 2010 and some key challenges arising from their implementation ‘European case law has generally found that women on maternity leave are in a unique position and so men have not been able to compare themselves to them.’ Paternity leave is, of …
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