The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ordered a Vancouver pub owner to pay a former server thousands of dollars after she was fired for being pregnant.

Stephanie Lipp was a server at Maverick's Sports Lounge on Kingsway in Vancouver, getting about four shifts a week, according to documents from the hearing.

At the hearing, witnesses testified Lipp was good at her job and she brought in business for the first six months she was there.

Then in March, 2013, the pub was sold to Michael O'Connell, who changed the name to Locker Room Pub.

At that time Lipp was six months pregnant.

The pub's former manager testified O'Connell told him he had "an issue with the optics of having a pregnant server working a in a bar," and directed him to reduce her hours.

Lipp testified within two months her shifts were reduced to one day a week, and then none.

She considered herself constructively dismissed, and filed a human rights complaint

After hearing the case, the tribunal ordered the pub to pay $2,000 in lost wages, and $7,500 for injury to dignity, feelings and self respect.

Michael O'Connell has not yet been reached for comment.