Woman who did not get leaving card loses UK employment claim

Managers had bought a card but did not present it because only three people had signed it. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

A woman who sued her former employer over not being given a leaving card lost her case when it was revealed it had been hidden from her after only three people signed it.

Karen Conaghan claimed that the “failure to acknowledge her existence” at IAG, the parent company of British Airways, was a breach of equality law.