Pregnant Employee Dismissed During Probation

Giada Mifsud Calabro has been awarded damages amounting to €10,846 by the Industrial Tribunal after the Tribunal decided in favour of the employee in a case against Union Print Company Limited.

The employee was employed in a full-time position as a Sales Executive with a condition being stipulated in her contract that she needed to sell an amount equivalent to €75,000 within the first 12 months of her employment. She was dismissed on grounds of non-performance a few days after informing her employers that she was pregnant while she was still during the probationary period of her employment contract. The employer explained how the employee had been given several warnings due to non-performance and that the dismissal had been made purely on the grounds of non-performance.