🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

This poster shows the true difference in what a firefighter can get in maternity pay and provision throughout the south west. The women perform the same role however are valued completely differently by their brigades.  1/3

BREAKING NEWS: Landmark equal pay win for thousands of workers against Next. More than 3,500 current & former store staff of national retailer Next have won their six-year legal fight for equal pay. @Eli2a3ethGeorge and her team represent the store workers ow.ly/vJB950T78KL

Hazards Conference has begun! Listening to Rob Miguel, Unite the union: join a union National Officer with a room of delegates ready to spend a weekend discussing organising strategies for safer work Hazards Campaign #CovidIsAirborne #Ventil8Filter #Haz2024

Legal Action Group is sad beyond words to hear of the sudden death of our great friend and colleague Simon Mullings. His contribution to housing law is beyond measure; and his commitment, compassion and expertise changed countless clients’ lives for the better. [Contd ...]

'As we now have a new government, it is time to implement active measures to curb the hostile environment that has been fuelled by the inflammatory language of the last one,' says Legal Action Group CEO Sue James lag.org.uk/?id=215881

“Perhaps unsurprisingly, we could find no example of any other country abolishing its main public health institution in the middle of the covid-19 pandemic”, says Lord Ara report on NHS England go.wilmingtonplc.com/index.php/emai… via Health Service Journal

Co-chair of the APPG on Access to Justice Willy Bach welcomes us all to today’s Access to Justice meeting, with a warm welcome to new Minister for legal aid Heidi Alexander (she/they) and a moment or two to celebrate Simon Mullings and all that he did for Access to justice.

Truly shocking to hear Kemi Badenich criticising as ‘excessive’, the very low rate of maternity pay in the UK. Does she really expect mothers to save a year’s wages in anticipation of a new baby?

Calling Statutory Maternity Pay 'excessive' is mind-blowing when it's less than half the rate of the national minimum wage. 🤯 A recent survey by Maternity Action and UNISON shows a quarter of women on maternity leave went without food to feed their families.

Kudos to Guardian Money for fact checking Badenoch’s claims about ‘excessive’ mat pay. The Maternity Action survey clearly shows the impact of low rates of maternity pay, with women forced to return to work before they have recovered from the birth. theguardian.com/money/2024/sep…

The review highlights the well-documented marked inequalities among ethnic minority groups in maternal and child health and mental illness, alongside experiences with the criminal justice system and services more widely 5/6

Social justice requires we take urgent action on the evils of racism Dr Habib Naqvi MBE @profkevinfenton Sadiq Khan @mayorofLDN London Gov London Assembly @UCL bmj.com/content/387/bm…

Very interesting research into structural racism and health inequalities in London from The Sir Michael Marmot Institute of Health Equity Very pleased to have contributed through the Advisory Board. Racial disparities in maternity remain stark. Maternity Action theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

#KemiBadenoch's comments have at least provided some opps for highlighting the poor state of maternity pay The Mirror features our op ed mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

Working on maternity leave, borrowing from family, going into debt. Great piece in ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩ on how women manage on the UK’s obscenely low statutory maternity pay. thetimes.com/article/616be4…

“We also expect there to be significant wider benefits to society, including positive impacts on health and wellbeing, equality, competition and participation,” the assessment, put together by the Department for Business and Trade, said. thetimes.com/article/04541d…

Delighted to see genuine redundancy protection for pregnant women and new mothers in the Employment Bill. First recommended by @Commonswomequ in 2016; repeated commitments given by the then Government; private members bill by Maria_Miller. Important protection, long overdue.

We can do better than marking days on calendars to abstractly celebrate groups. We must ensure tangible policy changes to meaningfully improve the lives of migrants, asylum seekers and people at risk of labour exploitation. Read the report here: labourexploitation.org/publications/i…

Maternity pay is plunging new parents into poverty. Join me in calling for an end to pregnancy poverty now! Email your MP maternityaction.eaction.org.uk/endpregnancypo…

📢 Last call for our Housing Conditions update webinar tomorrow with Catherine O'Donnell of Garden Court Chambers 🗓️ 20th March, 17:30-18:30 📒 Attendees will receive Catherine's 2-part annual Housing Conditions update from LegalAction magazine 👉 Register at tinyurl.com/Housing-Condit…