2 h. ago Hotel manager discriminated against female colleague by saying she should know how to clean, tribunal rules

Zied Lajimi, a Travelodge hotel manager, was fired after a tribunal found his comment to a female member of staff that she should know how to clean discriminatory.

Society

7 h. ago Telling a woman she should know how to clean is discriminatory, tribunal rules

The employment judge said the remark by a former Travelodge hotel manager is offensive due to the association with ‘historic and outdated attitudes’ that women have a domestic role

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54 h. ago Woman tells how Siri saved her life after it called 999 when she suffered vicious attack by criminal boyfriend

Emma-Louise Kelly told how her life was saved by 'Siri' after it heard her screams for help when she was beaten and sexually abused - and dialled 999.

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3 d. ago Sally Phillips: ‘I saw Hugh Grant and I screamed. I was surprised he was human

The comedian and actor on what she has learned at clown school, showing her Austin costar Michael Theo around London and the weirdest thing she has done for loveWhat do people approach you about most: Smack the Pony, Bridget Jones, Alan Partridge or shoving cake into Alex Horne’s armpits?I profile them as they come up. If it’s a man about my age, it would normally be Alan Partridge. If it’s a man in his 30s, it might be Taskmaster or Veep. If it’s a woman, it’s harder to tell. Smack the Pony seems to be having a revival among women in their 20s but it could easily be Bridget Jones and Miranda. It’s starting to happen with Austin, too, which seems to be something that families watch together. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago EasyJet manager who called misogynistic comments ‘banter’ loses appeal against sacking

An employment tribunal has ruled Ross Barr, who was sacked in September, was not unfairly dismissed by easyJet

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5 d. ago Warehouse worker accused of impersonating Michael Jackson by making 'hee hee' noises at a colleague was unfairly sacked, tribunal rules

The colleague, who is black, accused Lucasz Zawadzki of mimicking the pop star, making monkey noises and being racist at the Co-Operative warehouse where they worked.

Society

6 d. ago EasyJet manager sacked after alleged inappropriate and misogynistic comments to female crew

An employment tribunal has ruled Ross Barr, who was sacked in September, was not unfairly dismissed by easyJet

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6 d. ago easyJet cabin crew boss sacked for 'staring at ass' of colleague and saying 'lovely ladies' on tannoy

An employment tribunal has ruled that Ross Barr, of Edinburgh, was not unfairly dismissed.

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7 d. ago A day with the Revenge Porn Helpline: ‘You can sense the callers’ desperation’

Intimate image abuse is a crisis in the UK – with a fortyfold increase in calls to this service since it opened in 2015. Thankfully, there are effective ways to help those being victimisedBy midday, Jessica has dealt with five calls from highly distressed young women in their 20s, all close to tears or crying at the start of the conversations. She absorbs their alarm calmly, prompting them with questions, making sympathetic noises into her headset as she digests the situation. “Are these images sexual in nature?” she asks the last woman she speaks to before lunch. “Do you want to tell me a bit about what happened?” She begins compiling a tidy set of bullet points in ballpoint pen. “It’s all right. Take your time.”Jessica is sitting on a bank of desks with three other women, responding to calls to the Revenge Porn Helpline. For the past decade, the helpline has been offering advice to callers whose partners or exes have uploaded nude images or footage of them without their consent. “...

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1 week ago Everyone need to watch masterpiece war film now streaming at least once

Kate Winslet's film Lee is streaming now and tells the remarkable true story of a woman who abandoned a career as a model to become one of the most important war correspondents of the 20th century

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2 w. ago Young chatty workers disturbing older colleagues ‘not age harassment’, tribunal rules

Workers in their 20s and 30s that may annoy by socialising found not to be breaking workplace equality rulesOlder employees who are disturbed by younger, more boisterous colleagues in the workplace are not victims of age harassment, an employment tribunal has ruled.Employees in their 20s and 30s may annoy more mature co-workers by chatting, socialising and looking at their phones but they are not breaking workplace equality rules, the tribunal said. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Woman 'blindsided' as friend tells truth about relationship after 15 years

The woman shared her upset after her friend's revelation left her feeling 'betrayed'

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2 w. ago Worker with bad back who was fired after bosses saw him 'dancing' was actually just shuffling from foot to foot, tribunal rules 

Neil Wilson, who also worked as a reggae DJ and music producer, began working for a plastic piping company in 2021, the hearing was told.

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2 w. ago What happened to Louise Kam's killers as Netflix airs Body in the Bin documentary

Body in the Bin: The Murder of Louise Kam tells the harrowing tale of a 71-year-old murdered woman whose body was found inside a wheelie bin

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3 w. ago ‘I live for a chance to leave Iraq’: how I survived torture and slavery at the hands of Islamic State

A decade on from being freed, a Yazidi woman tells how she endured being abducted by militants when she was aged nineMy childhood living in a village in northern Iraq near the city of Mosul was rich in happiness despite the lack of resources. I was fond of my school and friends and enjoyed a warm family life filled with laughter. That all vanished when Islamic State forces invaded our area.When we heard of their approach [IS took control of large areas of northern Iraq and its second biggest city, Mosul, in 2014], we tried to escape but were surrounded by five IS vehicles. The men were separated and they took my father and one of my cousins and shot them in front of us. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Woman labelled 'out of touch' for complaining about 'stingy' weekly allowance from her partner as people tell her to 'get a grip on reality'

The British mother vented on Mumsnet, where she revealed that she was on a 12 month career break and so needed funds from her boyfriend to cover overheads for her and their young son.

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4 w. ago Millet: Life on the Land review – phallic forks and suggestive wheelbarrows enliven a landscape of toil

National Gallery, LondonThere’s a undeniably erotic charge to Millet’s paintings of gloomy hard work – reminding us that, behind the hoes, these are real people with real desiresThe figures in Jean-François Millet’s 1859 painting The Angelus, a French icon that’s come to the UK on loan from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, seem extremely odd on close inspection. Their faces are obscure, their bodies intriguing under their shapeless work clothes. What age are they? How are they related? The man is quite young, his top shirt button loose, although his legs are as stiff as a doll’s, inside thick, rough-cut trousers. It’s harder to tell the woman’s age because she stands in profile, a breeze pressing her heavy skirt against her legs, as she clasps her hands. They might be a married couple or, as this painting’s unlikely fan Salvador Dalí claimed, mother and son. Their physicality is intense. The phallic prongs of a thick wooden potato fork and wheelbarrow shafts add to the feeling that, now ...

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4 w. ago Life expectancy of women in west Africa is 59. Those over 60 were asked

Women across west Africa have a life expectancy of 59. In a rare project, Sylvia Arthur set out to give voice to those who have lived beyond expectation, whose experiences have been largely overlookedAddra* insists that his aunt, Anyessi Dossou, does not have a story to tell. “She’s just an old woman who’s never left the village,” he says, as he guides us along dirt tracks in fading light to her home in Avlo, Benin.When Dossou, in her early 80s, emerges from her room in the compound house she shares with generations of her extended family, the conversation begins hesitantly. “I told you,” Addra says. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago ‘Well, no, you don’t have to have children’: what African women over the age of 60 have learned about life

Women across west Africa have a life expectancy of 59. In a rare project, Sylvia Arthur set out to give voice to those who have lived beyond expectation, whose experiences have been largely overlookedAddra* insists that his aunt, Anyessi Dossou, does not have a story to tell. “She’s just an old woman who’s never left the village,” he says, as he guides us along dirt tracks in fading light to her home in Avlo, Benin.When Dossou, in her early 80s, emerges from her room in the compound house she shares with generations of her extended family, the conversation begins hesitantly. “I told you,” Addra says. Continue reading...

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