Áine Magorrian, who is from the Castlewellan area of County Down, was made redundant five months into her second maternity leave with renewable energy firm Saliis.

An Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union has recently given her opinion in an interesting case involving pregnant workers and redundancy.

It has been found that female staff at an ambulance trust were groped and forced to give sexual favours in order to receive promotions. The women who worked at the South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust told those investigating the trust that there were young women in the organisation who were groomed by ‘sexual predators’. They said that staff were propositioned by managers to have sex.

Three Northern Irish women have received settlements totalling £15,500 after it was found they were subjected to pregnancy or maternity discrimination in their workplaces.

A Danish study has been published, finding that sexual harassment in the workplace can lead to depression as well as absence from work.