€14k for woman dismissed for being pregnant

A WOMAN has been awarded over €14,000 in compensation after it was found she had been dismissed on gender grounds because she was pregnant.

€14k for woman dismissed  for being pregnant

The decision by the Equality Tribunal was made in favour of Jevgenija Petrakova, an ethnic Russian from Latvia, against Lexor Entertainment ltd.

Ms Petrakova claimed that approximately two weeks after she started working with the respondent in a restaurant she attended her doctor and discovered she was pregnant.

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