A woman is on her parental leave and gets pregnant. She asks her employer to stop her leave to move on to a maternity leave, so that her husband can take the end of the parental leave. Facing her employer's refusal, she considered that she was discriminated. The Court of Justice confirmed this stand. (Ref. 070861)
Because of a new pregnancy, a Finnish woman who was on parental leave asked to reduce the leave’s term. Thus, her husband would be able to take the parental leave he is entitled to in his turn, while she would be on her maternity leave. Yet, the collective agreement she depends on only accepts such a change if the ground is “any unforeseeable and fundamental change in the conditions of caring for a child which the official was unable to take into account at the time when he applied for child-care leave”.
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