The purpose of legislation that requires businesses with a headcount of 250 people or more to disclose gender pay gap data is not to enforce an annual round of self-flagellation. The transparency that gathering and publishing information provides aims at driving change.
Yet the response of some elite firms to the first year of mandatory reporting, in 2018, was to meet the letter, but not the spirit, of the law. While equity partnership in such firms is the glittering prize that many junior lawyers aim for, some firms excluded partner earnings from their first report.
Slaughter and May, for example, reported a median pay gap of 38.5% – but its exclusion of partners earned the firm derision in parliament and the press. In 2019, suitably chastened, the firm included partners – and the gap jumped to 63.6%. In common with many firms, Slaughter and May also chose to measure its race and ethnicity gap (51.1% in 2019).
Covid-19: German vaccine seekers getting aggressive, doctors say
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Covid-19: German vaccine seekers getting aggressive, doctors say
Reuters / May 12, 2021, 15:14 IST
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Germany has been ramping up its vaccination campaign and has now given a first dose to a third of the population.
BERLIN: Germans desperate to be vaccinated against the coronavirus are becoming increasingly aggressive, doctors said on Wednesday, as frustration mounts after six months of lockdowns even though infection rates are now falling. The pressure on vaccination centres and doctors practices is growing. People pushing for vaccination are becoming more demanding, Anke Richter-Scheer, the deputy head of the German association of family doctors, told the Funke media group.
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Following the 5th December 2020 Imo North Senatorial by-election to replace the late Benjamin Uwajumogu, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared victory in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC) without proclaiming a winner. This was due to a multiplicity of cases by APC members claming to be the partyâs candidate and the various reliefs they were able to procure from different courts. But in a recent petition signed by the partyâs acting National Chairman and governor of Yobe, Mai Mala Buni, APC accused Supreme Court Justices Mohammed Dattijo, Abdu Aboki and Helen Ogunwumiju of conspiring with the Peopleâs Democratic Party (PDP) to deliver the senate seat. This grave allegation has already elicited a response from the apex court with dire implications for the people of Imo North and democracy in Nigeria.
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Despite protestation from my friend, Waziri Adio who has been her greatest supporter and encourager right from the beginning, I had warned my wife when this whole idea started three years ago that on no account should it get to the media. I promised financial support and when necessary rally close friends but it should always be our own way of giving back to the society in a quiet way. When Ms Tolu Salami, a Masters degree holder and job seeker, joined to assist in managing the âschoolâ, I should have seen a red flag with the opening of a Twitter account. But with a followership of just 75 comprising family and friends, I never thought much of it. Then the photograph of Amatala, a two-year old who was in the habit of loitering around the âschoolâ premises with book in hand, changed everything!