POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Oct 9, 2019

Call to abolish sick-pay threshold

“The government needs to get on and protect every worker if they fall sick.” One in 10 women workers do not earn enough to qualify for statutory sick pay, according to TUC analysis published recently. Research found that 1.4 million women employees earn less than £118 a week – the qualifying threshold for statutory sick pay. Which means they cannot claim sick pay if they fall ill. Working people can get £94.25 per week Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) if they are too ill to work. It is paid by...

POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Oct 8, 2019

Review of buffer zones decision needed

Was the evidence provided to the review team even communicated in full to the Minister? In the last year, 34 abortion clinics in England and Wales have had protests outside them. We know first-hand the harassment and intimidation carried out by these so-called protests. And we were disappointed that the UK Home Office report on protests outside abortion clinics underplayed and misrepresented women’s evidence of what they had experienced. Priti Patel needs to look again at the case for...

POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Aug 7, 2019

It looks like rape is no longer a crime

The collapse in rape prosecutions calls for urgent leadership. The End Violence Against Women Coalition, a coalition of over 80 specialist women’s organisations, has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for immediate action following new Home Office statistics that show only 1.5 per cent of the rapes that are reported to the police are charged and go to trial. That is one in 65. The End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW) argues that this is, in effect, “a decriminalisation of...