An office manager has been awarded a five-figure sum after she was sacked when she got pregnant while still on maternity leave.
Jacky Scott , 37, was awarded the compensation at a recent hearing after her former employer, a timber merchant, was found by an employment tribunal to have sexually discriminated against her.
She was already on a year’s maternity leave after giving birth to son Jacob when she found out she was expecting daughter Matilda.
She wrote to her bosses at Cox Long Limited on September 23, 2009, to say she was pregnant again.
She told her bosses she intended to return from her original maternity leave as planned on November 1 that year but would take another year’s leave from March 22, 2010.
Barely two weeks later she was told her position was potentially redundant and then, on November 2, 2009, she was dismissed. An appeal was later rejected.
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