2017/28 Failure to enhance parental leave pay to level of maternity pay held to be direct sex discrimination (UK)

It was direct sex discrimination for a male employee who wished to take shared parental leave (SPL) to be entitled only to the minimum statutory pay where a female employee would have been entitled to full salary during an equivalent period of maternity leave, according to a first-instance decision from the Employment Tribunal (ET).

2017/38 What are the consequences for vacation entitlement where the number of working days changes during the year? (GE)

This decision of the German Federal Labour Court (‘Bundesarbeitsgericht’, or ‘BAG’) concerns what happens to leave entitlement if the employment contract is amended in the middle of the year and the number of working days changes from a four-day week to a five-day week.

Case C-12/17. Parental leave

Must Article 7 of Directive 2003/88/EC 1 be interpreted as precluding a provision of national law...

ECJ 13 July 2017, case C-354/16 (Kleinsteuber), Part-time work and sex discrimination

Distinctions made for part-time workers in calculating occupational pension can be acceptable, as long as the calculations are based on legitimate objectives in accordance with law.

2017/28 Failure to enhance parental leave pay to level of maternity pay held to be direct sex discrimination (UK)

It was direct sex discrimination for a male employee who wished to take shared parental leave (SPL) to be entitled only to the minimum statutory pay where a female employee would have been entitled to full salary during an equivalent period of maternity leave, according to a first-instance decision from the Employment Tribunal (ET).

2017/38 What are the consequences for vacation entitlement where the number of working days changes during the year? (GE)

This decision of the German Federal Labour Court (‘Bundesarbeitsgericht’, or ‘BAG’) concerns what happens to leave entitlement if the employment contract is amended in the middle of the year and the number of working days changes from a four-day week to a five-day week.

Case C-12/17. Parental leave

Must Article 7 of Directive 2003/88/EC 1 be interpreted as precluding a provision of national law...

ECJ 13 July 2017, case C-354/16 (Kleinsteuber), Part-time work and sex discrimination

Distinctions made for part-time workers in calculating occupational pension can be acceptable, as long as the calculations are based on legitimate objectives in accordance with law.

Case C-147/17. Working time and health and safety

Must Article 1(3) of Directive 2003/88/EC 1 in conjunction with Article 2 of Directive 89/391/EEC...

Case C-147/17. Working time and health and safety

Must Article 1(3) of Directive 2003/88/EC 1 in conjunction with Article 2 of Directive 89/391/EEC...