Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly - Men now eligible for maternity...

the MCAD has quietly announced it will apply the Massachusetts Maternity Leave Act to both women and men.

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will now allow men to apply for MMLA maternity leave benefits

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hat female employees be given eight weeks of unpaid leave when they give birth or adopt a child

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“If two women are married and adopt a child, then they are both entitled to leave under the [MMLA], and yet if two men are married and adopt a child, they would be entitled to no leave under a strict reading of the statute,” Ebel pointed out. “That result was troubling to us, and we didn’t think it was in keeping with our mandate by statute, which is to eliminate, eradicate and prevent discrimination in Massachusetts.”

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