New mum found out she'd lost eight-year job at Missguided 'from her colleagues' whilst on maternity leave

A new mum claims she discovered she'd lost her job of eight years at Missguided from her colleagues. The former employee, who asked not to be named, says she was on maternity leave having recently given birth to twins, when the fashion company announced it had gone into administration last month.

Despite having worked at the firm's Trafford warehouse for eight years, the 36-year-old claims she only received formal notification she'd been made redundant days after the announcement.

She claims to have found out about the company's demise through a colleague, after staff were given 20 minutes notice to join an automated call about their fate.

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The mum-of-two claims she was only able to work out she was one of dozens of staff being made redundant through the help of friends and after being locked out of her email account.

In a letter seen by the Manchester Evening News , appointed administrators Teneo have since admitted the company has 'no funds' to pay her statutory notice pay, and that she'd have to claim any money owed from the government.

The former staff member says she is now having to claim statutory maternity pay and take on the stress of finding a new job while looking after two new-born babies.

Speaking to the M.E.N, she said: "I worked for the company for eight years and they didn't even have the respect to tell me they were making me redundant and they completely failed to acknowledge I'm on maternity leave.

"I found out about the company going into administration from a colleague that had been on one of the phone calls. There was a lot of confusion about who had been made redundant.

"Myself and another person on maternity leave had to work out we were