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Lip Service

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First episode dateOctober 12, 2010
Final episode dateMay 25, 2012
Networks BBC Three
Creators Harriet Braun
May 18, 2012
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Following the interwoven love lives of three gay women living in Glasgow.

Deborah Meaden warns time running out to act on climate

Deborah Meaden warns time running out to act on climate
Jul 25,2023 10:11 pm

... " Some large companies have been caught out - paying Lip Service to sustainability, but not putting it into practice - but many do genuinely want to commit to change, Meaden told Bupa s eco-Disruptive event in London, which earlier this month ran a competition for start-ups in the sustainability sector...

Weight-loss: Are injections the answer to tackling obesity?

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Mar 18,2023 9:10 pm

... And many NHS patients " have four or five conditions as a result of their excess weight, and at the moment we pay Lip Service to it" he says...

Mum traumatised by Nottingham maternity failings gives birth to girl

Mum traumatised by Nottingham maternity failings gives birth to girl
Feb 8,2023 11:31 pm

... " But it s not a one-off; it s got to be a continued practise of listening and reacting, not Lip Service...

COP26: World on track for 2. 4C warming despite climate summit - report

COP26: World on track for 2. 4C warming despite climate summit - report
Nov 9,2021 5:12 pm

... " If they have no plans as to how to get there, and their 2030 targets are as low as so many of them are, then frankly, these net zero targets are just Lip Service to real climate action, " said Bill Hare, chief executive of Climate Analytics, one of the groups behind the Tracker...

Coronavirus: the demands for a better workplace social distancing guidance

Coronavirus: the demands for a better workplace social distancing guidance
Apr 18,2020 5:46 pm

... Mr Roache says too many employers pay Lip Service to the protection of its employees, but actually, the people and their communities, leaving vulnerable...

Cardiff woman wins £400k in the DWP-race discrimination row

Cardiff woman wins £400k in the DWP-race discrimination row
Feb 25,2020 3:35 am

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Poorest life expectancy of women is decreasing, finds report

Poorest life expectancy of women is decreasing, finds report
Feb 25,2020 3:34 am

... Shirley Cramer CBE, chief executive of the Royal Society for Public health, said: If the new government wants to show that it can go the conversation on levelling up for the regions and groups that have been left behind, it must begin by paying more than mere Lip Service to the reality of the deep-rooted inequalities in the whole of the UK...

Natalie Portman, responds to Rose McGowan's Oscar dress criticism

Natalie Portman, responds to Rose McGowan's Oscar dress criticism
Feb 16,2020 10:25 am

... Lip Service is the problem...

Cardiff woman wins £400k in the DWP-race discrimination row

Feb 16,2020 8:20 am

Anne Giwa-Amu, the Nigerian and Welsh, won their lawsuit against the government Department

The Department for work and pensions has been ordered to pay almost £400,000 had won After Cardiff woman's claim of race and age discrimination.

Anne Giwa-Amu told the BBC The Department is "the promotion of a culture of racism".

The Judge in your court case, said she had been a victim of the deliberate and intentional harassment by DWP staff.

The Department said that racism is unacceptable, and it takes the verdict "very seriously".

warning: This report contains racist and offensive language

Anne Giwa-Amu, 59, who is mixed Nigerian and Welsh, joined the DWP branch in Caerphilly as a full-time administrative officer in the year 2017, After trying without success to start up a Small Business .

you don't-recruit was the only white and only students over the age of 50 years in their cohort, according to the documents, the Cardiff Magistrates' Court, and seen by Bbc News .

judge Howden-Evans said that DWP staff had intentionally has a "Hostile Environment " for Ms Giwa-Amu and ordered created to pay The Department More Than £386,000 of compensation.

This includes £42,800 for the violation of feelings, the one with the "most severe" cases, where there is a lengthy campaign of harassment.

"It is a relief, After what was a harrowing experience for three years," Ms Giwa-Amu told the BBC.

"I have the experience genuine financial hardship of the offender and the despite were promoted, how they treated me. "

Ms Giwa-Amu was in the branch of the DWP in Caerphilly in South East Wales

A DWP official, violates their dignity, by using racist language such as "Paki-lover" in their presence, the court found.

Another had more humiliated and discriminated against laugh Ms Giwa-Amu through loud and telling her cohort that he had "touched it, bum".

the officials had also accused repeatedly of stealing Ms Giwa-Amu, ice-cream, sprayed body spray on yourself while you feel next to her, and violated her trust After she reported, "bullied".

Ms Giwa-Amu was sick in March 2017 and has been illegally dismissed, in October this year, will not be able to return to work, the court found.

she lived from just £55 per week, and no money for food After your last paycheck has been held back.

'Appalling'

the Ms Giwa-Amu said the BBC, she has since lived, with the "immense stress and anxiety".

"the administration at the DWP lip paying service to the equality act," She Said . "By protecting The Perpetrators , the promotion of a culture of racism. "

The DWP has been ordered to contact the Equality and Human Rights Commission for diversity awareness training " and his Secretary of state, Peter Schofield, directly to your case check.

Ms Giwa-Amu's lawyer, Lawrence Davies, from Equal justice, said the DWP to destroy employees had "the self-confidence and well-being of a black employee, with their appalling behaviour".

"Nobody knows that DWP staff have been disciplined and some have been promoted," he said.

"given that the DWP has a high ethnic minority applicants, is The Presence of prejudice in The State benefits system is extremely be a cause for Concern . "

In a statement, said the DWP: "racism is completely unacceptable and measures to be taken against all employees found to Express such Views .

"We take The Judgment and the circumstances of this case very seriously. "



Source of news: bbc.com

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