“Woman wins RM300,000 in landmark case on discrimination over pregnancy”, 10 November 2014

In a landmark case, the Shah Alam High Court…awarded a woman RM300,000 in damages for breach of her constitutional right to gender equality after the government refused to employ her as a temporary teacher when she became pregnant...[Noorfadilla Ahmad Saikin’s] lawyer Honey Tan [said]…“There have never been damages paid for breach of constitutional rights before this. This decision has made great inroads into the development of Malaysian jurisprudence in the area of human rights law”…The lawyer also noted that while Noorfadilla had won her case against the government, Malaysian courts refuse to hold private actors like companies liable for breach of constitutional rights, referring to the Beatrice Fernandez case in which a former Malaysia Airlines flight stewardess sued the airline when it fired her after she became pregnant and refused to resign…