A Primark manager is suing the retail giant for sex discrimination - for not letting her have Thursday evenings off to care for her child. Natasha Allen was asked to 'guarantee her availability' to work the late shift on that day because the store did not have enough senior staff to cover her absence.
But the 29 year old argued this was unfair as she was the principal carer of then new born daughter Brooke. After the clothing chain rejected her request for flexible working, the departmental manager resigned and took her case to an employment tribunal.
At her original hearing a panel ruled she had not been discriminated against because the firm's insistence that managers work evening shifts applied to men too. But she has now won the right for the case to be heard again after the President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal, Mrs Justice Eady, dismissed the findings.
