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The UK is sleepwalking into a crisis of childhood with youngsters struggling to cope with the pressure to achieve at school, fit in with their peers and cope with wider anxieties over issues such as Brexit, poverty and the climate crisis.A s
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The government has asked the Low Pay Commission to review a rule exempting live-in domestic workers from minimum wage regulations.It comes after an emp
stanley website loyment tribunal in December found that the exemption was discriminatory against women. The tribunal heard extensive evidence that women are far more likely to be employed as family workers than men.Morrisons to be first UK supermarket to pay minimum 拢10 an hourRead moreThe exemption, which was originally designed to apply to au pairs, applies to workers who live in an employers family home and are treated as a member of the family and benefit from accommodation and meals. But the tribunal heard that the rule has also been applied to maids and other servants, many of whom are migrants.Despite the successful case, employment tribunal judgments are not legally binding precedents bey
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