newbies looking for some advice please :-)

kymi

I absolutely agree. You should go and see a solicitor about the way you've been treated. I'm surprised they were so blatent about being so pis--ed about your pregnancy

My daughter won a case against a former employer who sacked her because she was pregnant and she had worked there for under a year. You'll probably not get your job back, but a nice juicy cheque should help alleviate some of your financial problems

Good luck
Kymi

angel.cake wrote: »

Hi
Also, with regards to your employer, you get discrimination rights from day 1. I have recently done a course in Employment Law and the thing we learnt was the a pregnant woman has more rights than any other employee. There is virtually no grounds for sacking a pregnant worman unless gross misconduct such as theft. Even if there are redundancies, most companies would avoid pregnant women for fear of discrimination claims.

I think you should see a solicitor because they will be queuing up to take on your case.

pmlindyloo

May I echo the post which urges you to fight your case on grounds of unfair dismissal.

Have a look at this (particularly Step 4);

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/your_money/employment/dismissal.htm

We have an employment specialist at our CAB who deals with such cases so worth looking in your area to see if any of the bureaux offer this. If not I'm sure ACAS (as already mentioned) would help.