A senior property manager sued her bosses for discrimination because they didn’t send her a WhatsApp on her one-year anniversary at the company.

Rita Nunn said she felt ‘overlooked’ after she did not receive a congratulatory text on the work group chat at HEM estate management, an employment tribunal heard.

This was despite bosses acknowledging other anniversaries in the chat, but they claimed they stopped the tradition after other staff ‘complained about the large volume of messages being sent’.

But Ms Nunn still sued the estate management company for pregnancy discrimination over the matter as she told them she was pregnant two months earlier.

She added other members of staff had received a congratulatory message in that summer, but bosses insisted they were for ‘exceptional’ cases.

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