Tue, 17 July 2007 12:00:00 ET
Sting is now ordered to pay 24,944 pounds to his former chef who filed legal suit after she was treated unfairly while heavily pregnant.
Sting and his wife Trudie Styler have been ordered to pay their former chef compensation after losing a sexual discrimination case. The couple were told they must pay 41-year-old Jane Martin £24,944 at an employment tribunal in Southampton yesterday (17.07.07).
Martin claimed Styler sacked her from her job at the couple's Wiltshire estate because she was pregnant. The compensation includes £10,000 for injury to feelings and £16,000 for loss of earnings with deductions for redundancy pay Martin has already received.
But tribunal chairman James Simpson admitted Martin could have claimed a much larger sum. He said: "The tribunal was surprised when Mr Norman, representing the claimant, suggested the figure of £10,000 and that the claimant was not seeking aggravated damages or costs."
Martin won her cases of unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination on June 8 after telling a Southampton employment tribunal of her "cruel" treatment from her former employers. She claimed she was forced to work 14-hour days even while heavily pregnant, and that when she took time off sick Styler fumed: "Who the f**k does she think she is? She's my chef in the UK. She needs to be available if I need her, or she should rethink her position."
Martin admitted she feared she would lose her baby because of the stress she was being put under. A spokesman for Styler said an appeal had been lodged and insisted the hearing had displayed bias against her. He said: "It remains Trudie's position that she, as a woman and a mother, has never in her life sexually discriminated against anyone and never would do so."
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