Fertility treatment

New and updated

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Time off for fertility treatment policy

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Type:

  How to

  How to manage an employee who is undergoing IVF treatment

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Do employees have a statutory right to time off for fertility treatment?

• Type:

  Tasks

  Manage an employee who is undergoing IVF treatment

• Date:

  23 June 2011

  Type:

  Law reports

  Employer harassed and victimised employee after she underwent IVF treatment

  This case is a prime example of the problems that can occur in a workplace when a member of staff is undergoing IVF treatment in a bid to get pregnant.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Will an employee who takes time off for fertility treatment be entitled to statutory or contractual sick pay?

• Date:

  1 March 1996

  Type:

  Law reports

  IVF absence could be taken into account

  In London Borough of Greenwich v Robinson the EAT has overruled the finding of an industrial tribunal that it was indirectly discriminatory against women to treat absence resulting from IVF treatment as part of an employee's sickness record for redundancy selection purposes.

• Date:

  1 March 1995

  Type:

  Law reports

  Identified for redundancy because of IVF absence

  A woman whose absence resulting from IVF treatment was treated as part of her sickness record for redundancy purposes was unlawfully discriminated against on the grounds of sex, rules an Ashford industrial tribunal (Chair: G W Davies) in Robinson v London Borough of Greenwich.