“It’s OK, you can always adopt”.
If you’re unable to have a child, the chances are you’ll have heard these words before. But although they’re usually meant well, the people saying them often have little understanding of the many complications involved in ad...
"Maternity Leave is Just a Long Holiday, Isn’t It?"
March 11, 2022
If I had a pound for every time I heard this from an employer, I’d be a millionaire by now.
Admittedly, I don’t always hear it first-hand. It’s often the pregnant employee herself who tells me, that on her last day the boss offered what seemed like “a fina...
In September this year, Alice Thompson was awarded £185,000 by an employment tribunal. The tribunal ruled that Alice had suffered indirect sex discrimination when her employer refused to consider her flexible working request.
Alice had asked her employer, a ...
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