40The Commission, however, relies on Directive 92/85, in cases where the issue is discrimination on the ground of sex, in order to consider the possible effects on rights deriving from a contract of employment of a period of maternity leave longer than the minimum period laid down by that directive. In that connection it cites Case C-411/96 Boyle and Others [1998] ECR I-6401, paragraph 79, and appears to draw the conclusion that, as the rights of a female worker are liable to be affected by a period of maternity leave longer than the minimum laid down by Article 8 of the directive, the 20 weeks which Mrs Sass freely decided to take under Paragraph 244 of the AGBDDR were simply a benefit available to her.
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