The calculation of severance pay and reassignment pay for an employee on part-time parental leave must be based on their full-time remuneration, as any contrary national legislation leads to indirect discrimination on grounds of sex, the EU Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday 8 May (case C-486/18).
At the end of 2010, the French company Praxair MRC dismissed one of its employees as part of a collective dismissal procedure for economic reasons, while she was on part-time parental leave....