Tuesday 12 October 1993
A FORMER RAF servicewoman was yesterday awarded £33,000 by an industrial tribunal - the highest compensation payment made to a victim of sexual discrimination.
Deborah Miller, 28, from Nafferton, Humberside, was asked to leave her job as an aerospace systems operator within two days of disclosing her pregnancy to her commanding officer at RAF Buchan, Aberdeenshire, in March 1987. At the time, the armed forces had a policy of discharging women when they became pregnant.
Mrs Miller is one of 5,500 pregnant women dismissed from the services between August 1978 and August 1990 who are now eligible for compensation payments from the Ministry of Defence.
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