Working mothers are not entitled to paid maternity leave if they are receiving a baby through surrogacy under European law, however individual states may go further, a court rules.
The judgements in two cases handed down today by the European Court of Justice find that EU law does not provide for commissioning mothers to be entitled to paid leave equivalent to maternity leave...
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