Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the appellant had a right to paid maternity leave during her substitute-judge service under Zurich personnel law.
Extrahierter Entscheid
The complaint failed: although substitute judges are generally subject to cantonal personnel law, the appellant was not entitled to maternity pay because she had only very sporadic assignments and no proven loss of expected work during the maternity period.
Extrahierte Begründung
The court held that the maternity-pay rules of the cantonal personnel regime applied in principle, and there was no textual exception for this form of employment or for payment by daily allowance. However, on the facts, the appellant had no regular flow of mandates and could not show that assignments would have fallen away during the claimed period; without a likely loss of earnings, no entitlement arose.