A pregnant quantity surveyor won £185,000 after her boss decided to fire her while she was off work with severe morning sickness.
Rachel Richardson was sacked a month after telling managers she was expecting, having missed meetings due to scans and been absent for nine days because she felt unwell.
She had only been at the nuclear engineering firm where she worked for eight months before her dismissal, having been brought in to oversee an important project, an employment tribunal heard.