Socialist Challenge1981Socialist Challenge No. 189, 19 March 1981Version' of being
Socialist Challenge No. 189, 19 March 1981 · p. 11 of the scan · 133 words
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page 11 of the scan
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ment Law under the Tories, by Jeremy McMullen. Pluto Press, £1.95. KIM Turley was sacked from her job at Aliders department store in South London while she was pregnant. She did not have sufficient length of service to bring a claim for unfair dismissal.
Kim said she was sacked because she was pregnant, which amounts to being sackec because she was a woman. This happens to be illegal under the Sex Discrimination Act, but when her case went to an emplovment appeals tribunal, two male adjudicators rejected her apThey said: When she is pregnant a woman is no longer just a woman, but "a woman with child" as the Authorised Version accurately puts it, and there is no masculine equivalent.' Other useful cases can be found in Employ-