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    S'ralan has to cope as recruit goes on maternity leave

    We don't usually run "celebrity" stories here at WVoN, but this was one we couldn't resist. 

    S'ralan (he of the UK reality TV show fame, the Apprentice) is well known for his antipathy to women going off on maternity leave and leaving all those poor employers in the lurch. Maternity provisions, he declared last year, had gone "too far". Too far for what is not clear. 

    But the tables have turned and it seems that his latest Apprentice winner, Yasmina Siadatan, is four months pregnant following a "whirlwind romance with a colleague" (that's the Daily Mail speaking, not me). She's expected to go on maternity leave at Christmas. 

    So how will S'ralan cope? According to the Mail, he's said to be "very happy and supportive" about his new recruit's pregnancy. 

    Yeah, right. 

    on August 23, 2010 in Health, UK news |

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