'Humiliating & degrading' | Boss 'wanted to bet' on pregnant worker's weight - tribunal awards her £30k

A marketing executive whose boss allegedly joked about placing bets on how much weight she would gain while she was pregnant has been awarded £30,000 in damages, according to an employment tribunal.

The Times has reported that Sally-Anne Shipp told a hearing she was questioned by male colleagues at delivery firm CitySprint over whether her baby had been planned and whether she had stopped using contraception.

Shipp claimed that she was threatened with redundancy while she was on maternity leave and was subsequently sacked because she refused to do the same job under a lesser title for a £20,000 pay cut.

An employment judge has now ruled that Shipp’s dismissal was unfair and awarded her £30,000 in compensation for maternity and sex discrimination. The court was told that male colleagues at the London business who changed roles did not suffer similar pay cuts.