EU RULES ON PREGNANT WORKERS` PAY

02.07.2010 [22:56]
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Baku, July 2 (AZERTAC). The EU`s top court has ruled that pregnant workers who are temporarily transferred to another job or granted time off should not lose the extra payments they normally get, BBC reports.

But while on maternity leave they are not guaranteed the full amount, or to be paid an on-call duty allowance, the European Court of Justice said.

The ruling - binding across the EU - was prompted by two cases involving women in Austria and Finland.

Both took a pay cut during pregnancy.

They then took their cases to court to argue they should not have lost pay because of their pregnancies.

The judges in Luxembourg said that when pregnant women were no longer doing specific tasks rewarded by extra payments then there was no automatic entitlement to those payments.

But a pregnant worker granted leave from work or temporarily transferred to another job because of her pregnancy should be paid the money they were earning before the move, they said.

The court said those workers "must be entitled to remuneration consisting of her basic monthly pay and the pay components and supplementary allowances relating to her occupational status, such as those relating to her seniority, length of service and professional qualifications".

EU RULES ON PREGNANT WORKERS` PAY

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