Pregnant hairdresser demoted to cleaning and making tea awarded £90,000 payout

A large hairdresser who was demoted to cleaning and making the beverage aft she announced she was expecting has won £90,000 successful compensation.

Kayleigh Flanagan sued for favoritism aft she noticed an ‘immediate alteration of attitude’ from her employer, Amy Jury, who removed her from the salon’s online booking strategy successful the days pursuing her announcement.

She was soon lone told to instrumentality ‘walk-in’ customers and spent overmuch of her clip carrying retired apprentice duties – with ‘nothing other to bash but to cleanable the salon and marque tea’.

After a ‘severe deterioration’ successful work relationships and having 2 grievances investigated inadequately, Ms Flanagan resigned and sued Ms Jury for ‘unfavourable treatment’ owed to her pregnancy.

An employment justice has present awarded her £89,849 aft uncovering her bosses ‘sought to find responsibility with her work’ and ‘were nary longer invested successful her’ arsenic a effect of her pregnancy.

A proceeding successful Cambridge was told Ms Flanagan started moving astatine Envy hairdressers successful Thatcham, West Berkshire, arsenic a elder stylist successful June 2019.

Ms Jury, who owned the salon, said e was blessed for Ms Flangan aft learning of her gestation – but had an ‘immediate’ alteration of attitude.

Ms Flanagan said determination were ‘major changes to her role’ successful airy of her pregnancy. Her regular customers were assigned to different stylists against some of their wishes.

The tribunal said Ms Flanagan had ‘nothing other to bash but to cleanable the salon and marque tea’.

Employment Judge Louise Brown said: ‘We thought it was to her recognition that she did this without being asked to. We recovered that the information that she chose to clean, and arsenic she admitted successful her grounds everybody did if they had immoderate spare time, did not nevertheless mean that she had not been efficaciously demoted.

‘Having had the bulk of her hairdressing duties removed from her by Ms Jury to a precise important degree, arsenic a result, we recovered astir of the duties she carried retired were those of an apprentice.’

The tribunal said Ms Flanagan was demoted by virtuousness of her main duties being removed from her. The removal was motivated ‘because of the announcement of her pregnancy,’ they said.

In January, Ms Jury initiated disciplinary proceedings against Ms Flanagan, alleging ‘underperformance’. The salon proprietor said determination were 9 complaints against her which required ‘redo’s and refunds’ and she was accused of providing mediocre lawsuit work to a customer.

Ms Jury alleged this is wherefore she removed the hairdresser from the online booking but she didn’t archer her due to the fact that ‘she did not privation to impact her confidence’.

But, nary grounds of these complaints was presented during the proceeding – and the tribunal was ‘struck’ astatine the information that galore were sent a twelvemonth aft the events. Ms Flanagan was issued a last written informing successful airy of the disciplinary hearing, the tribunal was told.

This informing became ‘public knowledge’ among unit astatine the salon who would marque comments astir it which would ‘provoke laughter’ and made Ms Flanagan feel similar the ‘butt of the joke’.

EJ Brown added: ‘We recovered determination was a civilization of unpleasant connection and inflammatory words being spoken to [Ms Flanagan’ by others and that this attraction was due to the fact that [she] was a idiosyncratic connected maternity leave.’

EJ Brown – who noted a ‘severe deterioration’ successful the narration betwixt Ms Flanagan and her brag – said determination was a ‘wholesale failure’ to analyse and uphold portion of her grievances.

The tribunal said inadequate grievance probe and its findings were the ‘final straw’ for Ms Flanagan.

Now, the parent has been awarded immoderate £89,849.38 successful compensation.

Get successful interaction with our quality squad by emailing america astatine webnews@metro.co.uk.

For much stories similar this, check our quality page.

MORE: Nearly 12,600 babies calved addicted to drugs successful England since 2014

MORE: Like EastEnders’ Sonia, I was successful situation portion large – it was dehumanising

MORE: My person with benefits is large but I’m not acceptable to beryllium a dad