Teacher at Catholic-run school 'fired for having IVF' wins her job back
Monday, May 1, 2017 @ 6:06 PM
A TEACHER at a convent-run primary school who was 'made redundant' after having IVF has won her job back after taking the centre to court.
The tutor, who had been at the Salvador-Maristas school in Bilbao since 2005, started fertility treatment in 2009, the last of which was in May 2014, which the centre was aware of.
A month after her final course of IVF successfully got her pregnant, she was told in writing that she had been made redundant 'for financial reasons'.
Although the reception and kindergarten classes had suffered losses in 2012 and 2013, the overall year-end results showed the school was in profit at the time.
The Basque regional High Court of Justice found the school had not 'offered a reasonable and objective justification' for the teacher's being 'let go' and that it had not been sufficiently proven that her job being ended was due to motives other than her IVF treatment.
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