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Pay gap grew last year for workers with disabilities

The pay gap between people with disabilities and those without grew last year, new data shows. The Office for National Statistics revealed that the average employee with a disability was paid 13.8% less than their peers in 2021. It was a small ...

25 Apr 2022 at 14:55

Personal Finance

More than half of single mothers ‘locked out of automatic pensions enrolment’

More than half of single mothers do not automatically qualify to be enrolled in a workplace pension, a study has found. Some 58% of single mothers are ineligible to be automatically placed into a workplace pension, up from 45% in 2020, ...

21 Mar 2022 at 01:25

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Public meeting on gender equality takes place in Kilkenny this evening

A public meeting will take place this evening at Butler House in Kilkenny to discuss gender equality. Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, as part of the Fine Gael's Women's Network will host the meeting along with Deputy John Paul ...

21 Mar 2022 at 12:33

Scotland

Committee launches consultation on gender reform Bill

A Holyrood committee has launched a consultation on controversial gender reform legislation. The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill was introduced earlier this month, and will shorten the existing time period a trans ...

21 Mar 2022 at 10:55

Scotland

Footballer launches race discrimination case against Airdrie FC

Footballer Rico Quitongo has launched a racial discrimination case against his former club Airdrie and one of its directors. The 22-year-old claimed he was racially abused by a fan during a game last year, but the club ...

30 Mar 2022 at 17:25

‘Biological males’ should not compete in women’s sports – Boris Johnson

“Biological males” should not compete in women’s sports, while women should have access to single-sex spaces in places such as hospitals and prisons, the Prime Minister has said. Boris Johnson said it seems to him to ...

06 Apr 2022 at 15:55

Millions from LGBT community ‘thrown under the bus’ by Johnson

Millions of people from the LGBT community have been “betrayed” and “thrown under the bus” by Boris Johnson after he U-turned on a pledge to ban so-called conversion therapy, campaigners have said. Jayne Ozanne, an ...

31 Mar 2022 at 22:25

People should win positions on merit, Johnson says ahead of by-election

Boris Johnson has said that MPs should be selected “on their merits” as he refused to throw his backing behind all-female shortlists. Speaking on Times Radio, the Prime Minister said selection processes would be ...

03 May 2022 at 21:55

Ex-cricketer hails women’s sport as being at ‘highest point’ as she collects MBE

Women’s sport in the UK is “at the highest point it has ever been”, according to former cricketer Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent as she collected her MBE at Windsor Castle. Rainford-Brent, now a commentator, was ...

03 May 2022 at 17:25

Personal Finance

Nearly one in five ‘have no disposable income left after paying for essentials’

Nearly one in five (18%) people say they have no disposable income left to spend after their essential outgoings have been paid for, a survey has found. This is up from 13% who had no leftover discretionary ...

27 Apr 2022 at 13:25

Scotland

Sturgeon praises ‘courageous’ broadcaster Barbour for awards ceremony walkout

Nicola Sturgeon has praised a sports broadcaster who walked out of an awards ceremony in protest at “unacceptable” comments in a speech. Eilidh Barbour left the Scottish Football Writers’ Awards part way ...

12 May 2022 at 17:25

Music

Ed Sheeran sees off new entry competition to reclaim top spot in albums chart

Ed Sheeran has seen off challenges from multiple new entries in the album charts to reclaim the top spot with his fifth studio album Equals. The 31-year-old singer first topped the charts with the hit ...

25 Feb 2022 at 19:25

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