Compensation for sex discrimination is being sought by a Cookely assistant chief manager who said she was dismissed by a Bromsgrove catering firm after complaining about health and safety breaches.
Stephanie Morrison, of Woodlands Road, Cookley, sought permission at a Birmingham Employment Tribunal preliminary hearing to go ahead with her compensation claim against Class Catering Services Ltd, of Weston Hall Road, Stoke Prior, Bromsgrove.
During her employment of just over six months at the firm, Miss Morrison alleged she was bullied and sexually harassed and discriminated.
Class Catering was said to be the supplier of high quality meals to school and organisations.
She was dismissed for making disclosures, in the public interest, about alleged health and safety breaches by the firm, alleged Miss Morrison.
Details of the alleged breaches and sex discrimination claims were not revealed.
Representing the firm, Elizabeth Hodgetts, opposed the sex discrimination claim and said the firm denied the allegations.
Miss Morrison was told that some of her claims had been made past the tribunal’s three-month deadline and that she could not make a claim for unfair dismissal because she had not been employed for a year or more.
Miss Morrison could go ahead with her claim for sex discrimination, said Tribunal Judge Shirley Woffenden .
The full hearing is to be held next year with at least six witnesses attending.