A third of women who have suffered symptoms of the menopause say they hid them at work, and many think there remains a stigma around talking about the subject, according to a survey of workers in five countries. More than 5,000 women in the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and South Africa were interviewed about their…
Your article (200,000 UK women in line for pension back-payments of about £13,500, 4 March) has prompted me to write about my situation. While on his painful deathbed, my husband was cross that, at the age of 65, he had received just one pension instalment, after he had fully paid his national insurance contributions all…
The government has asked the Low Pay Commission to review a rule exempting live-in domestic workers from minimum wage regulations. It comes after an employment tribunal in December found that the exemption was discriminatory against women. The tribunal heard extensive evidence that women are far more likely to be employed as family workers than men….
The UK is in store for an unprecedented boom in events as the industry prepares to stage hundreds of thousands of weddings and “end of Covid” celebrations when restrictions on gatherings are lifted this summer – just expect to pay 25% more than before the pandemic. Booking for events have risen 250% compared with pre-Covid…
It is about to get a lot easier to spend your money. The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, announced last week that consumers will soon be able to spend up to £100 by tapping their payment cards in shops instead of putting in their pin. The rise in the contactless payment ceiling to £45 last year was…
Deliveroo is lining up a £16m “thank you fund” for a quarter of its riders with those delivering the most orders set to receive up to £10,000. The fund is set to launch alongside a planned $7bn (£5bn) stock market flotation in London under which the takeaway courier firm is also putting aside £50m of…
