Mr Price must pay €20k to employee it sacked while on maternity leave

The Workplace Relations Commission heard that the employee told her manager she would be unable to return to work at the end of her maternity leave due to back trouble. File picture

Discount retailer Mr Price has been ordered to pay €20,000 in compensation for discriminating against a former worker who had her employment terminated while on maternity leave.

Elena Balan told the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) that she had been “frozen” in shock after learning that she had been fired, weeks before she was scheduled to return to her job.