New case law – unfavorable treatment of employee on parental leave

A social welfare officer who returned from parental leave was assigned different types of cases to handle than those she had had before her leave. The Labour Court found that these were new tasks for her and that it had been established that the social worker wanted to keep her previous tasks and that the employer was aware of this. The social worker had therefore been disadvantaged when the employer managed and distributed the work. The Labour Court also found that there was a connection between the end of the leave and the disadvantage, and that it had been established that the decision to assign the social worker other categories of cases was not a necessary consequence of the parental leave, since the previous work tasks remained. The social worker was therefore disadvantaged in violation of Section 16 of the Parental Leave Act.

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