A healthcare worker has won a claim of harassment against an NHS health board after she was not provided with a suitable private space to express breast milk.
Robyn Gibbins told an employment tribunal she felt let down by the trust in Cardiff after she was not given a room that she could lock when she came back to work from maternity leave.
Gibbins told the tribunal that a male colleague had walked in on one occasion while she was expressing and it had been suggested she prop a chair against a door to lock it.
After complaining, Gibbins received an apology and was told “things would be different” after she had her second child, the hearing was told.
But, after she returned a second time from maternity leave, Gibbins was not given a room that she could lock.
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