Maternity leave redundancies at La Trobe Uni spark human rights 'bias' complaint We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Maternity leave redundancies at La Trobe Uni spark human rights 'bias' complaint Normal text size Advertisement The mass redundancy of women on maternity leave from La Trobe University has triggered a human rights complaint and a letter from 145 staff and affiliates demanding an independent investigation. Eleven out of 12 mothers on leave from one department were offered redundancies according to staff. They say this means 90 per cent of those on maternity leave were not "matched" with roles during restructuring compared with only 13 per cent of other staff.