A TOP saleswoman who was sacked after becoming pregnant has won her sex discrimination case and stands to receive thousands of pounds in compensation from her former employer, an Inverness-based computer firm.
But 36-year-old mother-of-two Lynda Forbes admitted yesterday: ''Much though our family needs the money, as I was the main breadwinner, an even greater satisfaction was seeing my ex-boss squirm in the witness box under cross-examination as my lawyer took him apart.
''I'm not normally a vindictive person but the financial problems that man caused our family by firing me because I was pregnant makes him de-serve everything he got. Not enough women take their employers to task over what happens in the workplace. We are valuable members of the business community.''
The Inverness industrial tribunal heard how Mrs Forbes, of Hughton, near Beauly, was head-hunted by businessman Alastair MacKenzie, 44, from her local newspaper's advertising sales team. The incentive to become sales manager in his new venture of selling websites on the Internet was a company car, a basic wage of #15,000 a year, a generous commission, and a laptop computer.
But Net Media of Inverness was soon experiencing a sales crisis and she was dismissed after four months.
Mrs Forbes blamed lack of training by Mr MacKenzie for the poor sales.
She was sacked when she unexpectedly became pregnant and was signed off by her doctor for several weeks.
Mrs Forbes will not know the amount of her award and the reasons behind it for another few weeks, but it is expected to run to thousands of pounds.
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