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My husband and I both work part time so we can look after our kids and have careers, and it's saved us about $40,000 on childcare (newsbreak,com)
My husband and I decided to work part time after the birth of our first child. Strangers have asked my husband why he's taking care of our kids. We've both taken pay cuts — but we've also saved money on childcare. When we had our first child, my husband and I needed to figure out how to balance childcare and work. We both wanted to spend time with our son but didn't want to stop working or pay for expensive childcare. The UK has some of the highest childcare costs in the world, and the lack...
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The world's biggest four-day work week pilot begins [cnn.com]
By Anna Cooban, Photo: Adobe Stock, CNN Business, June 6, 2022 Thousands of UK workers are starting a four-day work week from Monday with no cut to their pay in the largest trial of its kind. The pilot, which will last for six months, involves 3,300 workers spanning 70 companies, ranging from providers of financial services to a fish-and-chip restaurant . During the program, workers receive 100% of their pay for working only 80% of their usual week, in exchange for promising to maintain 100%...
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Woodworking and Hugs: Inside the Mental Health Movement for Men (reasonstobecheerful.com)
Credit: MSUK To read MaryLou Costa's article, please click here. Recognizing that “m en will talk shoulder to shoulder, but not necessarily face to face,” Men’s Sheds give guys a space to tinker while they open up — and heal. “While you’re doing this, you’ve got to concentrate on what you’re doing. And it takes your mind off other issues, and for those couple of hours, you kind of relax. Once you start feeling better, it’s like dropping a pebble in the water, and those ripples come back out,...
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The UK Retailer That Recruits Its Employees from Prisons (reasonstobecheerful.world)
Credit: Roger Utting / Shutterstock To read more of MaryLou Costa's article, please click here. “Hi, I’m sorry that I can’t respond to your email. I’m currently in a prison, recruiting more amazing colleagues for our business.” That’s a standard out-of-office reply for Darren Burns, who, as director of diversity and inclusion for well-known UK service retailer Timpson, spends a lot of time interviewing candidates from within prisons. CEO James Timpson made his first prison visit in 2002,...
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Methodists urge ministers to avoid gendered terms like husband & wife (lgbtqnation.com)
New York, NY, USA-December 28, 2019 A Untied Methodist Church with a Pride Flag showing support for the LGBT community Photo: Shutterstock To read more of Bil Browning's article, please click here. The Methodist Church UK has issued an inclusive language guide that urges church officials and lay people to update terminology to be more welcoming. “As Christians, we need to have the courage for conversations that can sometimes be difficult, to recognise that we sometimes exclude people, to...
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