Automatically excluding female employees on maternity leave from training programmes is discriminatory, the European Court of Justice has ruled.
The court found that the automatic exclusion of a female worker from a training course because she has taken compulsory maternity leave constituted unfavourable treatment contrary to EU law. It ...
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