One single management error and now there might be a lawsuit for workers discrimination on our startup.

Hi guys,

I run a startup in germnay currently 3 employees work here and ours getting traction and started looking for a 4th employee to meet our clients deadline.

So our incubators suggested me a remarkable candidate(internal employee) with some crazy work experience and also a mechanical engineering background and she liked our project and so adamant to work with us even with a average pay what she can earn out in the market ( but she asked her fair share of the company, which I agree)

I met her this Wednesday and she's so professional and introduced to the team and asked what they think after she left but got no clear response from them.

Coming back to the office space we are using our university machine shop/makers space to develop a prototype with a small office room modern but nothing too special and filled with spare parts and machines etc. We barely use that.

Tbh tho I really don't feel ready to hire a woman employee because I'm not really ready to provide their needs provide them welcoming environment etc until the funds to reach us which won't be until mid next year if we reach all of the clients benchmarks.

So I reached put to the incubators saying I can't accept her at the moment and I'll wait until the first round funding (which will be mid next year if I meet all the client benchmarks) to hire another employee.

On Friday when I was out at the site apparently incubators reached out asking for more in details and one of the guys responded incubators saying we can't accommodate woman at the moment cause we don't have resources so that's why I rejected her (he's saying he said by an accident which I do not belive him)

In germanh they take this things extremely serious while he's sent them through email and they got that in written form? Incubators want to see me first thing on Monday and already informed her the situation.

I have legal insurance and business insurance which they want to see on Monday, they also said they filed a official discrimination compliant and waiting for her to response.

Took 7 months to get started with regulations/compliances/tax papers, machine classifications and this. No gain only pain.

Now employees are all acting weird fights just fucking toxic.

Am I cooked?