• Discrimination

UK strengthens unfair dismissal protection for pregnant women

Employers will need to show they considered all reasonable alternatives to firing new parents under new proportionality tribunal test

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Freya Gilbert
Deputy Editor

The UK government announced today plans to introduce stronger safeguards to protect pregnant women from unfair dismissal.

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