A Stagecoach driver has lost a sex discrimination case after her boss told her 'I feel sorry for your husband' during a heated argument. When Ann-Marie Carreras replied that she wasn't married, manager Edward Henley-Burns replied: 'I'm not surprised', an employment tribunal heard.
The divorcee tried to sue employers, Stagecoach, claiming that by referring to her husband she was being treated unfairly. But the tribunal found that while 'ill advised and unprofessional' the comment that could 'equally have been said to a man in the same way' for example 'saying to a (heterosexual) man, “I feel sorry for your wife”.'
The hearing in Reading, Berkshire, was told that Ms Carreras has been working as a bus driver for Stagecoach West, working at their Banbury depot in Oxfordshire since November 2017. In October 2019, she was called to a meeting with her manager to discuss three customer complaints they had been made about her.
