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Discrimination: Big fight to have men get 91 days paternity leave like women

Maternity leave is a right granted to female employees to take time off work, following childbirth. [iStockphoto]

The Employment and Labour Relations Court has refused to dismiss a case in which men sought equal paternity leave days as women.

Justice Stella Rutto dismissed objections filed by the Ministry of Labour and the Attorney General, who argued that the labour court lacked jurisdiction over Dr Magare Gikenyi's case because he was neither an employee nor a union official.

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