A senior sales executive has won a sex discrimination claim against her employer, after her boss called her “useless” for becoming pregnant.
Louise Manning could be awarded up to £200,000 after a tribunal in Kent heard how she was told that she would “never be the same again” when she became pregnant.
Her boss also sent her a memo saying: “Feel betrayed . . . Tempted to dismiss and take the consequences,” and cancelled her training to join the firm’s board of directors.
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Manning was also demoted on two occasions while on maternity leave from her £55,000 a year sales position at Safetell, a supplier of security systems based in Dartford. And following three years at the company, she resigned last October.
The level of damages against Safetell will be decided at a tribunal in Ashford, next month.
