The woman has the right to shorten her education leave

(B2) A woman who benefits from child-care leave must be able to request that the duration be shortened if this deprives her of certain rights. So ruled the European Court of Justice on 20 September (judgment Kiiski, C-116/06). Article 2 of Directive 76/207 of 9 February 1976 on equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions work, as well as Articles 8 and 11 of Directive 92/85 of 19 October 1992 on maternity leave, "oppose national provisions relating to child-raising leave which, insofar as they do not account of changes in the state of pregnancy for the worker concerned in the limited period of at least fourteen weeks preceding and following childbirth, do not allow the person concerned to obtain, at her request, a modification of the period of her child-raising leave at the time when she asserts her rights to maternity leave and thus deprives her of the rights attached to this maternity leave."

(NGV)