
Ali v Capita Customer Management Ltd; Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police v Hextall [2019] EWCA Civ 900 CA
In both these cases, the Court of Appeal held that men who take shared parental leave are not being discriminated against if they receive statutory payments instead of the enhanced rates paid to women on maternity leave. This is because the court concluded that
These were both complex cases that were first heard by the Employment Tribunals and Employment Appeal Tribunal before reaching the Court of Appeal. However, employers should not rule out the possibility of an appeal to the Supreme Court, given the importance of the issues involved and the intervention of the UK’s work-life balance charity, Working Families.