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Maternity Discrimination: Not keeping mum – new mothers face dismissal and disadvantage
Åsa Waring and Dominic Boon consider ways to curb growing discrimination against expectant mothers and women returning from maternity leave ‘The Women and Equalities Committee suggested that the government response needed to be more robust if pregnancy-related discrimination is to decline over the next decade.’ The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the former …
Sex Discrimination: No protection for post-natal depression
Mark Kaye discusses a recent EAT decision on the dismissal of an employee who continued to take sickness absence after her maternity leave ended ‘The EAT found that although she had been treated unfavourably because of an illness which was related to her pregnancy, such treatment took place outside the protected period.’ It is not …
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