It has been found that female staff at an ambulance trust were groped and forced to give sexual favours in order to receive promotions. The women who worked at the South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust told those investigating the trust that there were young women in the organisation who were groomed by ‘sexual predators’. They said that staff were propositioned by managers to have sex.

An Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union has recently given her opinion in an interesting case involving pregnant workers and redundancy.

Áine Magorrian, who is from the Castlewellan area of County Down, was made redundant five months into her second maternity leave with renewable energy firm Saliis.

It is a regrettable but undeniable fact that pregnancy and childbirth and taking time away from work to raise children can sometimes be detrimental to a woman’s career, and that some women end up dropping out of the workplace altogether.