UK woman fired for getting pregnant during maternity leave. This happens next
maternity leave pregnant again, was awarded a compensation of 28,000 pounds by an employment tribunal. The woman Nikita Twitchen, 27, was preparing to return to her office after having a baby when she found out she was expecting again. Before she could join back, her managing director Jeremy Morgan sacked her from her job to stop her going on another 36-week maternity leave, Daily Mail reported.
Nikita Twitchen, an office administration assistant at First Grade Projects, began her role in October 2021. Left with no options to make her ends meet, Nikita was forced to take cleaning jobs while pregnant to support her family. She then took the building services firm First Grade Projects to an employment tribunal, launching an unfair dismissal claim, alleging that her pregnancy was the reason for her termination, where a judge ruled she was unfairly dismissed.
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Nikita Twitchen, a former admin assistant at First Grade Projects, told the Cariff tribunal that her working relationship with her boss Jeremy Morgan as 'very good, adding that he was 'very responsive' when she needed to speak to him. Months later, Nikita and her boss had a return-to-work meeting which 'started positively', the report said.
During the conversation, Jeremy Morgan told Nikita that the company had recently acquired a contract with the NHS and he was looking forward to her joining back to work, the tribunal was told. Towards the end
