A mother has won more than £90,000 for sex discrimination after a prospective employer withdrew its job offer after asking how old her children were.

by | Jul 17, 2024

The claimant was asked about the age of her children out of the blue in a meeting clearly designed to assess the claimant’s suitability for the post. The tribunal did not consider that a man would have been asked this same question.

The tribunal found that she had been directly discriminated against because of her sex.

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