Sex discrimination: Comparing like with like – shared parental leave and enhanced maternity pay
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Ed Bowyer and Jo Broadbent discuss the EAT’s recent ruling on whether failure to enhance shared parental leave pay is discriminatory ‘The enhanced maternity pay was “special treatment offered to a woman in connection with pregnancy or childbirth” and could not result in a claim of sex discrimination.’ It is seven years since the government …