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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Sam Ormiston

Pregnant woman called 'pathetic' for needing 5-minute break while working New Year's Day

A care home worker has won nearly £25,000 after her boss called her 'pathetic' for needing a tea break when she was five months pregnant.

Anna Burns needed to sit down for a short break when she was working on New Year's Day around four months before her due date, an employment tribunal heard.

A judge concluded her 'bullying' colleagues at Tralee Rest Home in Whitstable, Kent, thought she was 'treating her pregnancy as an excuse not to pull her weight'.

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