Pregnancy and maternity discrimination

New and updated

• Case digest: pregnancy discrimination

  Date:

  1 December 2007

  Type:

  Law reports

  Tina McKevitt, solicitor and lecturer in law, provides a round-up of employment tribunal decisions on disability discrimination.

• Maternity leave: Right to return to work

  Date:

  18 July 2007

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Blundell v The Governing Body of St Andrew's Catholic Primary School and another EAT/0329/06 the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that a teacher returning to work following maternity leave was not entitled to return to the same class that she had been teaching when her maternity leave began.

• Case of the week: Returning to the 'same job' after maternity leave

  Date:

  5 June 2007

  Type:

  Law reports

  This week's case of the week, provided by Allen & Overy, covers the right to return to the same job after maternity leave.

• Blundell v The Governing Body of St Andrew's Catholic Primary School and another

  Date:

  17 May 2007

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Blundell v The Governing Body of St Andrew's Catholic Primary School and another EAT/0329/06, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has considered the right to return to the same job after maternity leave.

• EC Directive not properly implemented

  Date:

  1 April 2007

  Type:

  Law reports

  The High Court has found that the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, as amended, does not give full effect to the revised EC Equal Treatment Directive, in Equal Opportunities Commission v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (12 March 2007).

• Case of the week: Burden of proof in discrimination cases

  Date:

  6 February 2007

  Type:

  Law reports

  This week's case of the week, provided by Osborne Clarke, covers the burden of proof in discrimination cases.

• Can an employer reject an applicant for a maternity leave cover role on the basis that the applicant is also pregnant and will not be able to work for the full cover period?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Case digest: pregnancy discrimination

  Date:

  1 January 2007

  Type:

  Law reports

  Tina McKevitt, lecturer in employment law at University of Sheffield, provides a round-up of employment tribunal decisions on discrimination.

• Case round-up: Pregnancy discrimination

  Date:

  11 July 2006

  Type:

  Law reports

  This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering pregnancy discrimination.

• Health and safety/maternity rights: 'Avoiding risk' to new and expectant mothers

  Date:

  7 July 2006

  Type:

  Law reports

  In New Southern Railway Ltd v Quinn [2006] IRLR 606 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal holds that an employer's duty to take steps to "avoid" risk to a pregnant woman means that the risk should be reduced to its lowest acceptable level - not that it must be removed completely.