Employers can make pro rata reductions in bonuses during maternity leave

• Author:
• Daniel Barnett

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held, confirming ECJ jurisprudence, that employers are entitled to make a pro rata reduction in bonuses paid to staff, to reflect periods when a woman is absent on maternity leave.

The exception is that the bonus must be paid in respect of the two week period of compulsory maternity leave provided for under the Pregnant Workers Directive.

Thus a woman who is absent on maternity leave for 26 weeks cannot claim sex discrimination in respect of a annual bonus... (80 more words)

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