A HAIRDRESSER has won a payout of almost £90,000 after she was “effectively demoted” to cleaning and making tea after she told her employer she was pregnant.
Kayleigh Flanagan eventually quit her job and took her employer to an employment tribunal claiming constructive unfair dismissal.
Ms Flanagan said that she noticed an “immediate change of attitude towards her” after she told employer Amy Jury of her pregnancy.
Labour’s long-promised Act has scraped through the Lords. While the law marks a step forward, its lack of collective rights leaves workers short-changed — and sets the stage for a renewed campaign for an Employment Rights Bill #2, argues TONY BURKE
Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an undefined ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed



