A Member State may not require a parent to have been in employment at the time of the birth or adoption of their child in order to be entitled to parental leave, but it may require that the person concerned has been in employment for at least 12 months, without interruption, immediately before the start of that leave, ruled the Court of Justice of the European Union in a judgment delivered on Thursday 25 February (Case C-129/20).
The Court was responding to a request from the Luxembourg...