Pregnancy and maternity discrimination

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

  Date:

  21 September 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

  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.

• Case round-up

  Date:

  1 July 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

  Kirsti Laird is senior associate at Charles Russell Speechlys. She rounds up the latest rulings.

• 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

  Type:

  Law reports

  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.

• Requirement to leave childcare vouchers scheme during maternity leave was discriminatory

  Date:

  23 June 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  An employment tribunal has found that it was discriminatory for an employer to make it a requirement to join its childcare vouchers scheme that employees agree to cease to be a member of the scheme while on maternity leave.

• Case round-up

  Date:

  1 May 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  David Malamatenios is a partner, Linda Quinn and Krishna Santra senior associates and Melissa Powys-Rodrigues and Dominic Speedie associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

• ECJ examines Italian law excluding female workers on maternity leave from a course

  Date:

  25 March 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  The European Court of Justice found that an Italian law that excluded a female worker from a vocational training course, which was necessary for a chance at a promotion, because she was on compulsory maternity leave constituted unfavourable treatment contrary to EU law.

• No discrimination in dismissal following post-maternity-leave absences for depression

  Date:

  19 March 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that it was not direct sex discrimination or pregnancy and maternity discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 for an employer eventually to dismiss an employee who was on long-term sick leave for post-natal depression that continued long after her maternity leave had ended.

• Manage pregnant employees and those on maternity leave in a redundancy situation

  Type:

  Tasks

• Discipline an employee who is pregnant or on maternity leave

  Type:

  Tasks

• Discrimination: EAT provides guidance on injury to feelings awards and aggravated damages

  Date:

  10 April 2013

  Type:

  Law reports

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has provided guidance on remedies for discrimination claims, including injury to feelings and aggravated damages.