A MOTHER was told she may be too fat to work and given uniform so small she claims it made her look like a “pregnant duck”.

Marcia Gurvitz, of Heronsgate, Edgware, has now left her job at the new Morrisons shop in Colindale because she says her experience was humiliating.

She also claims they got her national insurance number wrong, gave her phone number out to her colleagues without her permission and drastically cut her hours.

The 54-year-old, who is overweight, said she arrived at her training one morning at the Harrow Leisure Centre when she was ushered aside.

She said: “They wanted to check if I would fit behind the till because of my weight. I asked – if I don’t will I lose my job? They said yes.

“I was stunned and gobsmacked. I thought I had just wasted three weeks of training and I was near to tears.

“Luckily I did fit behind the till but when I complained about the insensitive way I’d been treated, they didn’t understand.

“I am conscious of my size and that made it worse.”

She was then given a polo shirt and a fleece jacket too small for her and was told it could take months before new ones came in. In the end, she ordered some from eBay and was reimbursed.

She added: “It was humiliating. I was worried about my size but they measured me and said they had people far bigger than me before.

“I looked stupid – I felt like a pregnant duck.”

After complaining about being included in a WhatsApp group without her consent, her hours were cut from 26 to 17.

She was given evening shifts, despite specifically saying this was inconvenient as her diabetes means she needs to eat at certain times.

Realising the hours she was offered were not enough to cut her rent, she left and complained to the store manager.

When she received her first payslip, she noticed her national insurance number was wrong but “nobody knew” how to change this.

Meanwhile the company sent her P45 without paying for postage and she is concerned the error will affect her housing benefit.

She added: “It feels like they poured their stock all over me. I feel victimised.

“Everything from day one has gone wrong.

“I feel humiliated – you treat people how you want to be treated.

“I am mainly disappointed with the way I was treated.

“The thing is, it actually hasn’t put me off working for Morrisons because I did love my job – I just wouldn’t go back to that store.”

Morrisons said it is looking into the issues.