World Championship snooker referee Michaela Tabb has reached a confidential agreement with her former employers after a sexism tribunal.
Dunfermline-based Ms Tabb, 47, and World Snooker settled a row over a bonus payment and unfair dismissal during a hearing in Bristol.
Ms Tabb’s management made no comment about the employment tribunal, in which she used her married name McInnes.
In a statement, World Snooker said: “Michaela McInnes and World Snooker Limited have come to a confidential accommodation regarding the claims brought by Mrs McInnes in the employment tribunal.”
The row centred on a claim Ms Tabb missed out on a £1,000 bonus which her male colleagues received.
She had been paid the sum in 2012 and 2013 but did not receive any bonus in 2014 because she did not attend the game’s annual awards ceremony.
Ms Tabb made history by becoming the first woman to referee the World Snooker Championship final at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre in 2009. She went on to referee the 2012 final, and has also overseen Welsh Open and Masters finals.
But she resigned from World Snooker in March this year after a breakdown in her relationship with World Snooker and chairman Barry Hearn.
The tribunal heard: “I firmly believe that I have been discriminated against on the basis of my sex.”
She described how the row left her an emotional wreck, causing her to fly home early from a tournament in Australia.
World Snooker denied her claims.
Ms Tabb moved into refereeing after a successful career as a pool player. She had held UK and European titles.
After four years as a pool referee, in 2001 she was fast tracked into snooker refereeing in a move aimed at giving the game a fresh image.
However, she lost her job just two years later when World Snooker said they could no longer afford to keep her on.
At the time, she told The Courier she felt as though she had been stabbed in the back.
She was reinstated and went on to become one of the most recognisable faces on the snooker circuit.