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Employers who pay mothers different rates of shared parental pay to fathers run the risk of sex discrimination claims, following the first tribunal decision of its kind. In Snell v Network Rail, a father has been awarded almost £30,000 in a sex discrimination case after his employer refused to pay him the same as his wife while on shared parental leave. Mr Snell and his wife, who both worked for the rail company, opted to share their leave when she gave birth to their baby in January this year. His application indicated that his wife would take 27 weeks’ leave and he would take 12 weeks after that. But while Mrs Snell would receive full pay for her six months’ leave, Mr Snell was told he was only entitled to statutory paren