This case relates to the dismissal of an employee while pregnant but before her maternity leave.  The complainant was employed with the respondent from May 2010 to December 2010.  She informed them she was pregnant in mid-November.  After that, she asserts the respondent was ‘cool’.  She was subsequently on sick leave for two weeks and on her return she found she was doing more filing, half of the client calls previously undertaken, and while on her reception duties two ladies arrived stating they were there for interview and looking for the respondent.  When she called following her dismissal, a lady answered whose voice she did not recognise.

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