Maternity leave and maternity pay

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• Pregnancy and maternity: Manage an employee's maternity leave and pay

  Type:

  Liveflo

  Use this pregnancy and maternity workflow when an employee informs you that she is pregnant.

• What records relating to statutory maternity pay must an employer keep?

  Type:

  FAQs

• 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.

• EU law does not require mothers in surrogacy arrangement to get maternity leave

  Date:

  19 March 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  The European Court of Justice has held that EU law does not require that the commissioning mother in a surrogacy agreement be entitled to maternity leave.

• Maternity leave: local authority

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Additional information on the law on pregnancy and maternity leave for local authority employers, including Green Book provisions. To be read in conjunction with the general information on the law on pregnancy and maternity leave.

• How should an employer respond if an employee's maternity leave is triggered by a pregnancy-related reason?

  Type:

  FAQs

• How should the employer respond if an employee gives birth before her maternity leave has started?

  Type:

  FAQs

• What should be discussed at a pre-maternity-leave interview?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Surrogacy: both mothers ought to get maternity leave

  Date:

  27 September 2013

  Type:

  Law reports

  The Advocate General has given her opinion that EU law means that both mothers in a surrogacy arrangement should have the right to receive maternity leave.

• Maternity leave and pay: health (Scotland)

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Additional information on the law on maternity leave and pay for NHS employers in Scotland. To be read in conjunction with the general information on the law on pregnancy and maternity leave and pay.