The ruling stems from a grievance first filed by the federation in 2011 after teachers employed by the Surrey School District were
denied parental leave benefits afforded in their collective agreement following the births of their children.
Men are sometimes seen as poor caregivers and
denied parental leave.
Not exact matches
«It's wrong for the Christy Clark government to systematically
deny people with disabilities their rights to maternity and
parental leave, and plunge them into poverty.»
It is arbitrary and discriminatory to
deny a pregnant mother a
parental leave benefit simply because she enjoyed an ostensibly similar pregnancy
leave benefit.
The Tribunal concluded the employer discriminated against the employee on the basis of family status when it gave top - up benefits for
parental leave to adoptive parents but
denied them to biological parents, depriving the employee of money and time with his child — and awarded him a paid
parental leave with top - up even though the child was no longer an infant.
A
parental order was granted, but she was
denied maternity
leave by her employer.