Judge says school created a ‘degrading or humiliating environment’ which a woman who has recently given birth should not be subjected to
A teacher was a victim of harassment related to sex after she was made to express milk in the toilets or her car when working at the school, a tribunal has ruled.
The Hull tribunal heard that Ms T Mellor found it “unhygienic and disgusting to have to express in the toilets, which were often dirty” and that she had “no other choice” than to use her car or the bathrooms.
Employment Judge Miller concluded that Mirfield Free Grammar (MFG) School’s conduct had the effect of “creating a degrading or humiliating environment” for Mellor and that she had “no other option” as to where she could express.
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Mellor, a teacher at MFG school, part of the MFG Academies Trust in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, had her first child in 2018.
In September 2019, she told the school that she was pregnant for the second time. On 16 March 2020, before going on maternity leave, she sent a letter to the chair of governors, who was also the executive principal, making a flexible working request and asking for access to a room to enable her to express regularly when she returned.
Mellor gave birth to her child on 19 April and her flexible working request was confirmed on 21 May.
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