Court dispute | Nanny awarded £18k after being fired for pregnancy by lawyer

A lawyer has been ordered to pay more than £18,000 to his family’s nanny whom he sacked after learning she was pregnant – the Daily Mail reports.

Nanny Saesi Muslipah confided in Sylvain Dhennin’s wife that she was going to have a baby, but four days later Dhennin told her he was letting her go. Muslipah was unable to find another job and had to claim benefits.

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While Dhennin argued that the nanny was made redundant because his children were enrolled at a nursery school, the tribunal disagreed and awarded a total of £18,367 to Muslipah, of which £6,500 was damages and the rest compensation and interest. 

Dhennin, who is a partner at international corporate lawyers Hogan Lovells, was accused of “obscuring the facts” and using “deliberate, careful and sophisticated” language at the tribunal.