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Ryan Carroll & Lanarkshire Live

Shocked waitress sacked by Lanarkshire restaurant while on maternity leave

A waitress who says she was thrown out of a Lanarkshire restaurant "with her baby in her arms" after being sacked on maternity leave has been awarded thousands of pounds in compensation.

An employment tribunal heard how Kirsty Blyth was left jobless and struggling to pay her bills when her boss at Coatbridge's Black Rooster Peri Peri restaurant refused to let her return to work.

The new mum says after visiting the restaurant she was "flung out the shop" with her nine-week-old baby in her arms.

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