Tribunal throws out pregnant worker's discrimination claim

The Harlequin restaurant group, headed by Indian restaurateur Charan Gill, has been cleared of sexual discrimination by an employment tribunal.

Former assistant manager Tracey Campbell claimed she was forced to stand for hours without a break while she was six months pregnant.

Campbell, who eventually quit, accused Gill's company of sexual discrimination and constructive and unfair dismissal (Caterer, 10 May, page 6). A Glasgow employment tribunal rejected both her charges.

Campbell was duty manager at the Mill, a restaurant in Darnley, when it was taken over by Harlequin. She claims that when it was closed for renovations she was sent to work behind the bar at Mr Singh's restaurant in Glasgow's Argyle Street.

She then transferred back to the renovated restaurant, renamed Ashoka at the Mill.

The tribunal was told there was a different work culture after the takeover but found that Campbell was not prepared to adapt to the situation. This would have been the case whether or not she was pregnant, it added.

It ruled that Campbell was looking for discrimination and saw it where there was none.

Campbell told the tribunal she was now working as a bus driver.