LRD guides and handbook June 2016

Law at Work 2016

Chapter 7

Surrogacy 


[ch 7: page 201]

The rights of qualifying surrogate parents in the UK have been improved as a result of the Children and Families Act 2014 which introduced new rights to time off, adoption leave and pay, affecting babies born on or after 5 April 2015. For more information see Chapter 9.


Only a biological mother can claim pregnancy discrimination (CD v ST [2014] IRLR 551 CJEU).