A woman tried to sue her former employers after feeling ‘discriminated against’ at work

A woman in London recently attempted to sue her ex-employers because she felt “overlooked and discriminated against” at work.

Rita Nunn, a 34-year-old woman, claimed she experienced age and pregnancy discrimination and sued HES Estate Management for it. According to The Standard, she felt discriminated against when her one-year work anniversary wasn’t acknowledged in the company’s WhatsApp group chat. She said it left her feeling ignored, especially since messages had been sent for other employees in the past.

The south London employment tribunal heard that work anniversaries had previously been celebrated in the chat, but this practice reportedly stopped after staff complained about the “large volume of messages being sent.”

Since then, anniversary messages were only occasionally sent, usually in exceptional cases such as when an employee reached 20 years of service. A message celebrating a three-year anniversary had been “sent in error” in September 2023.

Ms Nunn informed the company of her pregnancy in June 2023, and her one-year work anniversary fell in August that same year. She resigned from her role in September 2023 after taking 10 months of maternity leave.

The judge dismissed all her claims, stating it was not unfavourable treatment

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Employment Judge Nicholas Cox rejected Nunn’s claims, stating that the failure to send a congratulatory message was not unfavourable treatment. He explained that other employees would also not have been congratulated on their first work anniversaries. So the case did not amount to pregnancy-related harassment.

Other claims brought forward by Ms Nunn were also dismissed. The judge concluded, “The failure to send [Ms Nunn] a work anniversary congratulatory message was not unfavourable treatment.

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“Other employees would also not, by the relevant date, have been congratulated on first work anniversaries. Accordingly, the claim for pregnancy-related harassment is not well-founded and is dismissed.”

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