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MPs have called for menopause to stanley cup be a protected characteristic and for a special ambassador to keep women in the workplace, after a report showed the UK is currently haemorrhaging talent .Employers lack of support for menopausal symptoms is pushing highly skilled and experienced women out of work, according to the cross-party women and equalities committee.Their report calls on the government to stanley cup amend the Equality Act to introduce menopause as a protected characteristic and to include a duty for employers to provide reasonable adjustments for menopausal employees.The MPs are also urging ministers to remove dual prescription charges for oestrogen and progesterone as part of hormone replacement therapy HRT , replacing it with a single charge.With 4.5 million women aged 50-64 currently in employment, the report highlights the knock-on effects of being out of work on the gender pay gap, the pension gap and numbers in senior leadership positions.lt;/iframe> , caption : Sign up to First Edition, our free daily newsletter 鈥?every weekday morning at 7am stanley shop BST , isTracking :false, isMainMedia :false, source : The Guardian , sourceDomain : theguardian } >Sign up to First Edition, our free daily newsletter 鈥?every weekday morning at 7am BSTResearch showed that women experiencing at least one problematic menopausal symptom are 43% more likely to have left their jobs by the age of 55 than those experie Ilyo Deliveroo riders suffer setback in court battle for right to unionise
The European court of human rights ECHR has ruled that a stanley quencher Turkish politician should not have been prosecuted for denying th stanley cup at the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turkey in 1915 was a genocide.In a landmark free speech ruling, the ECHR judges ruled by 10 votes to seven that Do臒u Perin莽ek, chairman of Turkeys Patriotic party, should never have been convicted of racial discrimination by a Swiss court for saying that the Armenian genocide is a great international lie .Perin莽ek was convicted and fined in 2007 after a series of press conferences on the topic, which the ECHR ruled was an infringement on his right to free speech. In its judgment, the court said Perin莽eks statements related to an issue of public interest and did not amount to a call for hatred or intolerance 鈥?and could not be regarded as affecting the dignity of the members of the Armenian community to the point of requiring a criminal law response .The court made a clear distinction w mugs stanley ith Holocaust denial, whose specific history meant it could always be seen as a form of incitement to racial hatred in certain countries. Its judges have earlier noted that the historical facts of the Holocaust, such as the existence of gas chambers , were considered clearly established by an international jurisdiction .Turkey has always denied that the killings, which started in 1915, were a pre-meditated attempt by the then ruling Ottomans to wipe out the Armenians. It says 500,000 died, not 1.5 million as claimed by Armen |
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