'Highly sensitive topic' | Worker wins legal fight over boss' 'humiliating' menopause remark

A worker has emerged victorious from an age and sex discrimination case after her boss said to her “she must be in her menopause”.

As reported by Metro, Leigh Best has been awarded £20,000 following an employment tribunal which heard details of ‘inappropriate and derogatory’ remarks made to her by Boss, David Fletcher, while she worked as a sales assistant at a pet shop in Essex.

According to the tribunal, Fletcher made the comments “at the top of his voice” to Best, who was 52 at the time of the incident, following an argument over an order mix-up.

The employment judges heard that Fletcher’s comments to Best “had the effect of violating dignity and of creating a humiliating environment for her at work”, according to the Metro.