December 7, 2010
The largest sex discrimination case in US legal history may end up with 1.5 million women taking on Wal-Mart. The case started with only six women claiming that female workers were “paid less and promoted less often than men”, but once word got around a huge portion of Wal-Mart staff wanted to join up and ...
September 23, 2010
Hollywood is soon going to be telling the story of sexual equality at work through the movie Made In Dagenham. This movie is going to be released in October and is about a group of women in the UK who went on strike from the Ford factory after finding out that their pay was 15% ...
August 20, 2010
The Equal Pay Act was created in Britain forty years ago to help reduce the salary differences between men and women. A study was just released to say that male and female salaries will not be equal until at least 2067! The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) surveyed over 43,000 employees in 197 organizations. Some findings: senior ...
January 29, 2010
The British Government is going to allow fathers and mothers to share parental leave with up to three of the legal nine months being available to fathers and an additional three months unpaid. It’s about time fathers got some official recognition for their importance in the early life of their children.
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working fathers,
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