A woman has won £10,000 compensation from her former employers after a tribunal found she was not given adequate reasons for redundancy.

The employment tribunal in Leeds heard yesterday how Lindsey Ryan, of Moorside Mews, Fagley, Bradford, was made redundant in May this year by Labour Ready UK, a recruitment and temporary employment agency.

Miss Ryan, 32, began work in January this year as a customer services representative at the firm's Bradford office in Thornton Road.

The tribunal heard how Miss Ryan became pregnant in January but was made redundant because staff numbers were high and the firm was not making a profit. Chris Sarsfield, a district manager of Labour Ready UK, said Miss Ryan was made redundant because she had been the "last in and therefore first out".

But Helen Parkinson, representing Miss Ryan, said the firm had not given adequate reasons for the redundancy, one of five made in branches around Yorkshire on May 17.

Miss Parkinson said the decision was only made the day before and was "made out of convenience" because Miss Ryan was pregnant. Miss Ryan said she had been unable to find work since.

The mother-of-three claimed she was sexually discriminated against because of her pregnancy but the three-person tribunal panel found this was not the case. John Pickard, tribunal chairman, said compensation should be paid to Miss Ryan because "of a failure to give adequate reasons for her redundancy".

Mr Pickard said Miss Ryan had not received an official letter explaining why she had been made redundant.

He said evidence from the respondants about why the four other employees were made redundant should have been given at the tribunal.

When the tribunal decided that compensation should be paid by Labour Ready UK to Miss Ryan, the two parties settled on the sum of £10,000. After the tribunal an elated Miss Ryan said: "I am very pleased about the outcome of the tribunal."