A BEAUTY firm worker who claimed pictures of scantily-clad women resulted in her being sexually discriminated against has lost her battle for compensation.

Sue Dale, a packer at Sally’s Hair and Beauty Supplies on Whitebirk Industrial Estate, Blackburn, alleged that bosses failed to heed her complaints about semi-naked pictures displayed in the Daily Star and Daily Sport newspapers.

But a tribunal panel dismissed her claim for sexual discrimination.

Mrs Dale, from Nelson, said she had raised the matter with warehouse manager Tony Crawford and centre director Ian Carson.

She also claimed that sexually-explicit playing cards were used in the canteen by male colleagues and pornographic videos had been watched at work.

Management sacked Mrs Dale in August 2006 after she had been issued with a final written warning the previous January, following a series of bust-ups with colleagues.

The tribunal heard that the company staged a series of appeals and grievance hearings leading up to her dismissal.

Area manager Margaret Brown, who conducted one of the hearings, felt Mrs Dale’s claims were “sour grapes” because she wanted her job back.

The three-strong panel, headed by Employment Judge Tyrell, ruled: “The tribunal did not find the witness (Dale) persuasive or compelling.”

They also noted that Mrs Dale could be ‘very pleasant, organised and supportive’, in working overtime to help out.

Yet when ‘things were not going her way’ she would ‘explode and remonstrate loudly with managers in public’, using bad language, they said.

An earlier hearing was told that Mrs Dale herself had brought a copy of The Sun to work, which it was felt contained similar images to those in the Star or Sport.

Mrs Dale was also criticised for only making a complaint about the alleged incidents up to two years later.

A previous hearing heard that the newspaper pin-ups were put up in the warehouse.