title: Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council v. Brown, 21 April 1988.
abstract: The appellant was an employee of a youth training scheme whose employment was terminated when her employers introduced a revised scheme employing fewer staff.  After she was not offered one of the new staff positions because she was pregnant and would require maternity leave, she charged her employer with discrimination on the basis of pregnancy as prohibited by Section 60 of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act.  The House of Lords of the UK reversed a lower court ruling (see ARPL, Vol. 14, 1987, Section 630) that she was terminated because of redundancy at the time that the new scheme was introduced.  It ruled that she had been unfairly dismissed because of pregnancy.
mesh_terms: D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004651:Employment; D005060:Europe; D006280:Health Workforce; D007603:Jurisprudence; D011287:Prejudice; D012923:Social Class; D012940:Social Problems; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Court Decision; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Employment Status--legal aspects; Europe; Human Resources; Labor Force--legal aspects; Maternity Benefits--legal aspects; Microeconomic Factors; Northern Europe; Sex Discrimination--legal aspects; Social Discrimination; Social Problems; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; United Kingdom