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.
She gave evidence that she was unable to sleep after being advised of the termination, her breastfeeding was disrupted, and she had low-grade anxiety, thinking that she had done something wrong.
