by Anna Denton | Jun 14, 2019 | Discrimination, equality, Equality Act, parental rights, pay
Enhancing shared parental pay differently to maternity pay is not sex discrimination, a recent case has resolved. The Court of Appeal recently heard from two male claimants who felt they suffered discrimination when their employers failed to pay them an enhanced...
by Anna Denton | Jun 21, 2017 | Shared Parental Leave
When the Shared Parental Leave legislation was introduced I predicted that it wouldn’t be long before male employees were arguing sex discrimination. In 2015 in a Police case the Employment Tribunal decided it wasn’t discriminatory to offer enhanced maternity...
by Anna Denton | Oct 10, 2016 | News, parental rights
When the shared parental leave legislation was introduced creating the potential for fathers to take extended periods of leave, I predicted that it would only be a matter of time before a gentleman argued that an employer who paid him merely at the statutory parental...