According to the report to DO, the woman applied for work at a company in Eskilstuna in March this year. She was offered six months of trial employment and the employment contract was sent digitally. Before the woman signed the contract, she called the company and told them she was pregnant.
When the woman was later to sign the contract, the link had been deactivated and she also found out by phone that she was no longer eligible for the job due to the pregnancy.
To DO, the company states that they conducted an internal investigation which concluded that the woman had been mistreated and that the recruitment could have been handled in a different way. The woman has been offered the position again after the incident.
The DO states in its decision that the company violated the prohibition against discrimination when the applicant was disadvantaged because she, as a woman, was pregnant. With this finding, the DO closes the case.