Barber sacked after falling pregnant while on maternity leave was victim of discrimination, tribunal rules
Judge finds claimant’s redundancy was related to her pregnancy despite boss maintaining it was down to ‘business reasons’
A hairdresser who was sacked just four days after telling her employer she had fallen pregnant while on maternity leave was discriminated against because of her pregnancy, a tribunal has ruled.
The remote tribunal found that Miss Siobhan Black – who had to remind her employer, Pat Drain Barbers, of her legal rights when it tried to dismiss her during her first pregnancy – was the only employee to be “paid off” after disclosing her second pregnancy.
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