Charity loses on unfair dismissal

By Ben Cook, Third Sector, 11 June 2008

A former employee of an east London-based charity providing accommodation for ex-seamen has won a sex discrimination claim against the organisation.

An employment tribunal in Stratford, east London, ruled that Denise Ward had been unfairly dismissed by Queen Victoria Seaman's Rest in July 2006 because she was pregnant. Ward, who was assistant operations manager at the charity, claimed that she had been "constructively and unfairly dismissed" because of her pregnancy. The...

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