Shared Parental Leave: Dads paid less for bringing up a baby – is direct discrimination the answer?

CMS | Employment Law Journal | July/August 2017 #182
Anthony Fincham and Val Dougan analyse two recent cases challenging employers’ failure to enhance shared parental pay rates for fathers ‘It may be possible to argue that a failure to pay enhanced rates of pay is both direct and indirect discrimination.’ We have come a long way since maternity leave was first introduced by the …

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Shared Parental Leave: The law of unintended consequences

Norton Rose Fulbright | Employment Law Journal | November 2016 #175
Lauren Pullen-Stanley discusses the potential impact of the first tribunal decision to consider the pay given to men and women on shared parental leave ‘In light of Snell, it is advisable that employers amend any policy which pays men and women different levels of shared parental pay.’ There was a flurry of excitement among employment …

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Additional Paternity Leave: Father time

Baker McKenzie LLP | Employment Law Journal | April 2011 #119
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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