All items: Pregnancy and maternity leave

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  Peninsula Business Services Ltd v Donaldson EAT/0249/15 (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Maternity discrimination: No discrimination where employer offering childcare vouchers as part of salary-sacrifice scheme did not offer vouchers during maternity leave

    Date:

    25 April 2016

    In Peninsula Business Services Ltd v Donaldson EAT/0249/15, the EAT held that childcare vouchers under a salary-sacrifice scheme constitute "remuneration", with the result that there is no legal obligation to continue their provision during maternity leave.

  • No requirement to offer childcare vouchers via salary sacrifice during maternity leave

    Date:

    10 March 2016

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that it is not discriminatory for an employer that offers childcare vouchers in return for a deduction from pay to cease to offer the vouchers during maternity leave.

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  (1) Dixon v Rees and (2) Hopkins v Shepherd & Partners [1993] IRLR 468 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Comparative approach endorsed

    Date:

    1 November 1993

    In (1) Dixon v Rees and (2) Hopkins v Shepherd & Partners (30 July 1993) EOR52C, the EAT rules that a comparison with how a man would be treated is necessary in pregnancy discrimination cases unless the case is one of dismissal for pregnancy "without more".

  • Comparative approach still applies

    Date:

    1 September 1993

    In (1) Dixon v Rees and (2) Hopkins v Shepherd & Partners the EAT has construed the House of Lords' decision in Webb v EMO Air Cargo as approving the test set out by the Court of Appeal requiring a comparison between the treatment of a pregnant woman and that of a man who also needed to be absent from work.

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  Abberley v (1) Swift Europal Ltd (2) Swift Europal (UK) Ltd [2003] ET/2800700/02 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 August 2003

    Hilary Slater, consultant with Cobbetts solicitors, provides a round-up of employment tribunal decisions on discrimination.

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  Abbey National plc v Formoso [1999] IRLR 222 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Hearing should not have gone ahead

    Date:

    1 June 1999

    In Abbey National plc v Formoso the EAT has upheld a finding that it was sex discrimination for an employer to hold a disciplinary hearing when the applicant was unable to defend herself due to her absence for a pregnancy-related reason.

  • Sex discrimination: Correct approach to assessing loss of earnings flowing from discriminatory dismissal

    Date:

    15 May 1999

    In Abbey National plc v Formoso, the EAT rejects an employment tribunal's "reasonable employer" approach to calculating the financial loss flowing from a discriminatory dismissal.

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  Achonwa v Independence Homes Ltd ET/2303236/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employer's handling of performance issues was discriminatory

    Date:

    21 June 2010

    Clear evidence of direct discrimination is uncommon, but an employer's unfair actions can often lead to an inference of discrimination, as this case demonstrates.

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  Advocate General's opinion in Guisado v Bankia SA and others Case C-103/16 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Collective redundancies do not always permit dismissal of pregnant workers, says Advocate General

    Date:

    21 September 2017

    In this Spanish case, the Advocate General has suggested that a collective redundancy does not always qualify as an "exceptional case" permitting the dismissal of a pregnant worker.

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  Aikman v Gibbs and Lear Ltd t/a Transformations Hair and Beauty [2004] ET/3101272/03 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 May 2004

    Hilary Slater, consultant with Cobbetts solicitors, provides a round-up of employment tribunal decisions on discrimination.

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  Amoah v Morgan Elliott Ltd [2003] ET/2306156/02 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 December 2003

    Hilary Slater, consultant with Cobbetts solicitors, provides a round-up of employment tribunal decisions on discrimination.

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  Aslett v Les Femmes de Menage Ltd [2009] ET/1101490/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Pregnancy and maternity leave discrimination: employment tribunal decisions

    Date:

    19 January 2010

    This article summarises the main issues and outcomes in five tribunal cases brought by pregnant employees or employees on maternity leave. Although the decisions are not binding on other tribunals, they provide useful illustrations for employers of situations that have led to pregnancy discrimination claims.

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  Athis v Blue Coat School [2005] All ER (D) 53 (Aug) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up: Discrimination against employees on maternity leave

    Date:

    15 November 2005

    This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering discrimination against employees on maternity leave.