Saturday Kitchen star Aktar Islam has revealed how he was forced spend £51,000 of his own money to defend himself against false claims he had unfairly dismissed a pregnant employee after he closed down his critically acclaimed restaurant Legna.
The chef, 41, who won Great British Menu in 2011 and Gordon Ramsay's The F Word the year before, won an employment tribunal battle last month, Jasa Antar Jemput Karyawan Cikarang after his former Assistant General Manager Sara Cowie claimed she had been fired due to falling pregnant.
Aktar - also runs Michelin-starred Indian restaurant Opheem in Birmingham as well as Argentinean steakhouse Pulperia - sent shocks through the culinary world when his upmarket Italian restaurant suddenly closed in January 2020.
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