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2018/25 Two new cases consider whether fathers’ parental leave should be paid the same as mothers’ maternity leave (UK)
Keywords Gender discrimination
Authors Ludivine Gegaden
DOI 10.5553/EELC/187791072018003003005
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Ludivine Gegaden
Ludivine Gegaden is a Trainee Solicitor at Lewis Silkin LLP.

  • Abstract

      Two differently constituted Employment Appeal Tribunals (‘EATs’) have recently considered whether it is sex discrimination to pay men on parental leave less than women on maternity leave. In Capita, the EAT decided that it was not direct sex discrimination to fail to pay full salary to a father taking shared parental leave, in circumstances where a mother taking maternity leave during the same period would have received full pay. However in Hextall, the EAT has indicated that enhancing maternity pay but not pay for shared parental leave may give rise to an indirect sex discrimination claim by fathers.

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