When pregnancy or parental leave changes how you're treated
Pregnancy and parental leave carry some of the strongest protections in UK employment law. If your employer's behaviour has shifted since you announced a pregnancy or took leave, understanding exactly what the law requires of them matters.
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Common patterns
What pregnancy and parental issues can look like
These are the patterns most commonly raised in pregnancy and maternity discrimination claims.
Made redundant during or after maternity leave
Your employer selected you for redundancy while you were on maternity leave, or you returned to find your role had been significantly changed, given to someone else, or no longer existed. Special legal protections apply to redundancy during maternity leave — including priority access to suitable alternative vacancies.
Your employer selected you for redundancy while you were on maternity leave, or you returned to find your role had been significantly changed, given to someone else, or no longer existed. Special legal protections apply to redundancy during maternity leave — including priority access to suitable alternative vacancies.
Pregnancy and parental leave have specific legal protections.
If something changed at work after you became pregnant, went on leave, or came back — that's worth understanding properly. Start with a free assessment to get an initial picture of your situation. Then go deeper with guided tools that help you check your rights, understand your eligibility, and identify which protections might apply.
Find out what protections might applyWhether the legal protections around pregnancy and parental leave might be relevant to your situation
Which type of claim might apply — maternity, discrimination, and redundancy claims can overlap
That many of these protections apply from day one — before you've built up any length of service
How your situation relates to common pregnancy and parental leave claim types
Whether other issues might be involved — like redundancy, discrimination, or pay
There's a process — and knowing the landscape helps.
These are the stages people in your situation typically encounter. Most cases don't go through all of them — but the early stages have strict time limits, so it's worth understanding the landscape from the start.
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Ministry of Justice LawTech Programme - accepted into the MoJ's programme supporting innovation in access to justice
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