Extra compensation a tribunal can award on top of your normal claim if your employer’s conduct was especially high-handed, malicious, or insulting, not just unlawful. It reflects the additional hurt caused by how you were treated, not just the legal wrong itself.
In practice
In Slade and Hamilton v Biggs, a tribunal awarded aggravated damagesExtra compensation a tribunal can award on top of your normal claim if your employer's conduct was especially high-handed, malicious, or insulting, not just unlawful. It reflects the additional hurt c... on top of the usual compensation because of how deliberately and cruelly the employer had treated a pregnant employee.
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