European court rules Spanish dads get breastfeeding leave
Alternative headline: What political correctness leads to.
The new legislation means that both the mother and father are allowed to leave work for an hour during the day or reduce their working day by half an hour during the first nine months following the birth of a child.Wow. Welcome to the liberal utopia.
The European Union Court of Justice in Luxembourg ruled on Thursday that the Spanish law caused an "unjustified discrimination on grounds of sex" because fathers do not have the same rights as mothers.
Fathers are currently only allowed to apply for breastfeeding leave if the mother is employed full time.
Not giving dads the same right as mums in this case "is liable to ... keep men in a role subsidiary to that of women in relation to the exercise of their parental duties," the court ruled.
