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

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

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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