INTRODUCTION
The issue considered by the Court of Appeal in the joined appeals of Ali v Capita and Hextall v The Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police was whether it was unlawful sex discrimination for an employer to pay a man taking shared parental leave less than a woman taking maternity leave. The Court of Appeal found that a differentiation between maternity pay and shared parental pay was neither direct nor indirect sex discrimination. It was also not a breach of the sex equality clause in section 66 of the Equality Act 2010 (EqA). The Supreme Court has refused permission to appeal in Hextall. Ali has not been appealed …
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Sarah Court-Brown, Is Lower Pay for Shared Parental Leave Discrimination? Ali v Capita Customer Management Ltd; Hextall v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police, Industrial Law Journal, https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwaa015. Published: 16 September 2020.
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