A national collective agreement may only grant mothers additional maternity leave if can be demonstrated that the aim of the maternity leave is to protect female employees in relation to the effects of pregnancy and motherhood. This was the conclusion of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in a judgment published on Wednesday 18 November (Case C-463/19).
In this case, the CFTC union, which was representing the staff of the Caisse primaire d’assurance maladie (CPAM) de la...