THE Labour Court on Friday ordered Woolworths to pay a woman R200000 after it refused to offer her permanent employment because she was pregnant. The court found that Woolworths had unfairly discriminated against Beverely Whitehead as an applicant in a job offering remuneration of R300000 a year. Woolworths claimed in court that the reason for the refusal of Whitehead for the position was that the job required “uninterrupted continuity” to be rationally and commercially viable. Judge Basheer Waglay ruled, however, that he found no objectively justifiable reason why the position would require uninterrupted continuity” for 12 months.