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Daily Mirror
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Alahna Kindred

WHSmith worker wins £25,000 after boss says she must bring daughter into work

A WHSmith worker was awarded more than £25,000 after she was forced to bring her daughter to work when her manager made her work on Saturdays.

In 2018, Jacqueline Keating was the sole carer for her eight-year-old child and had asked not to work at weekends because she did not have anyone she could ask to help watch her.

Her "frustrated" boss told her she had to work a four-hour shift and organise her own replacement if she could not, the employment tribunal in South London heard.

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