A UK employment tribunal has awarded a pregnant employee 93,000 pounds (around ₹1 crore) in compensation after her boss unfairly dismissed her. According to the Independent, the woman’s employer, Ammar Kabir, terminated her via text, citing business difficulties and the need for an in-office worker. The message, which abruptly ended her employment and was punctuated with a “jazz hands” emoji, was ruled unjustified by the tribunal.

Notably, Mr Kabir’s remarks came after Paula Miluska requested to work from home due to severe morning sickness. The termination message concluded with a vague promise to “catch up outside of work” and a dismissive “jazz hands” emoji, which featured a smiling face with outstretched palms.

The UK employment tribunal awarded her 93,616.74 pounds in compensation after ruling that her pregnancy was the reason for her unfair dismissal from Roman Property Group Limited in Birmingham.

Ms. Miluska, an investment consultant, began experiencing morning sickness after learning of her pregnancy in October 2022. Due to increasing nausea, she requested to work from home, citing her midwife’s advice that this would be best during the peak period of pregnancy nausea.

She wrote in her text, “The midwife was saying that at the moment if I can work from home it’ll be best as these next two weeks are usually the peak of pregnancy nausea due to hormones. Also, she mentioned that when I go back to work you need to do a health and safety assessment. I’m not sure what that is.”

The tribunal judge noted aid there were “no other text messages” between the pair until 26 November when Mr Kabir asked Ms Miluska how she was feeling.

The following evening, Mr. Kabir asked Ms. Miluska if she could work a few days the next week, with shorter hours, but the tribunal deemed this request insincere. Despite Mr. Kabir’s claim that he needed her to cover his holiday absence, the tribunal concluded that this was merely a pretext and that Ms. Miluska’s pregnancy was the true reason for her termination. 

Having picked up his five-year-old brother from school, the two were returning home. Their scooter grazed a car and it quickly spiralled into a free-for-all.

The car owner, Harsh Upadhyay, and his friends beat up the two brothers and then followed them all the way to their home in Ishwari Khera area in Lucknow on Tuesday.

Once there, they called some 40-50 people. Soon, stones were being thrown by both sides, showed a video. A man, dressed in a safari suit, was seen firing a gun. Witnesses say four rounds were fired. Two cars were damaged in the resulting violence and the injured were rushed to a hospital, said police.

The cops say no official complaint has been filed in the matter as yet

The man who fired the gun has been taken into custody and an investigation is underway, police added.

There is peace in the area and the situation, said police, is under control.

The cops say no official complaint has been filed in the matter as yet.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina:

A faculty member of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was shot dead on campus on Monday afternoon, and a suspect has been taken into custody, according to a school spokesman, CNN reported.

The incident caused people to seek shelter for several hours while police investigated.

At 1:02 pm ET, shots were reportedly fired at the school’s Caudill Laboratories. Shortly after 2:30 pm, Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz confirmed that a suspect had been taken into custody.

The suspect’s and the faculty member’s names were not right away disclosed. UNC Police Chief Brian James stated on Monday night that it was still too early to determine the motive behind the shooting, according to CNN.

“We really want to know the ‘why’ in this case and what led to it,” James said, adding that the gun used in the shooting had not been found.

“This loss is devastating and the shooting damages the trust and safety that we so often take for granted in our campus community. We will work to rebuild that sense of trust and safety within our community,” Guskiewicz said, as reported by CNN.

Around 1 pm, the school had sent out a warning to the students instructing them to take cover, later adding that a suspect was still at large. Later on in the afternoon, the university gave the “all clear”.

According to officials, classes and campus events on Monday and Tuesday were cancelled.

The school’s second week of the fall semester is currently underway. Around 32,000 students attend the university, together with over 4,000 faculty members and 9,000 staff personnel, CNN reported.

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