5-figure payout for employer who sacked woman after miscarriage

An Irish-based firm has been ordered to pay €17,000 (£14,000) to a woman it unfairly dismissed while off sick suffering a miscarraige – Irish Times reports.

The chicken processing firm, Western Brand Group, told the woman that she had been “sick for too long” when dismissing her in December 2015.

This was 12 days after the woman was diagnosed with an ectopic pregnancy. The night before that an ambulance had brought her to the emergency department of a local hospital.

Just eight days after this, she was sacked over the phone by an employee at the firm’s payroll office.