Under Regulation 10 of the Maternity and Parental leave etc Regulations 1999, an employee on maternity leave whose role is being made redundant is entitled to be offered any suitable alternative vacancy. The recent case of Carnival Plc v Hunter [2024] EAT 167, has confirmed that this only applies to suitable alternate vacancies. The claimant […]
Tag: maternity leave
Maternity Leave around the world
I have been referred to a very interesting infographic about maternity leave around the world, which I thought I would share as it was very pictorially informative. To have a look at maternity leave around the world click here.
Shared parental leave and pay
For babies due on or after 5th April 2015 or those who will be placed for adoption after that date there will be new rules around the leave so that parents can take the traditional maternity leave period between them. The mother must take the compulsory leave but after the initial 2weeks or 4 weeks […]
Surrogacy and maternity leave
Further to my earlier posts, we now have a ruling from the European Court of Justice on this issue. The ECJ has held that a commissioning mother (who receives a child via a surrogacy) does not have the right to maternity leave under the Pregnant Workers Directive. The aim of the Directive is to protect […]
Surrogacy and maternity leave
Whilst surrogacy is not permitted in the UK, this does not stop UK intended mothers from utilising the arrangement where it is permitted overseas. This raises many issues but in employment law terms it also raises issues as to the intended mother’s right to maternity leave. There have been two conflicting Advocate General decisions on […]
Sex Discrimination during pregnancy
ACAS have written an interesting article today concerning discrimination women face both during pregnancy and after childbirth. The article highlights the results of a survey carried out by another employment law firm which showed that 51% of the 2000 women surveyed felt that attitudes towards them changed when they became pregnant and 66% felt that since […]