Between 1988 and 1994 five men were recruited and only one woman who left after a year
Between 1988 and 1994 five men were recruited and only one woman, who left after a year. Where four out of five women had been educated to degree level, only three out of six of the men had been.In 1991 Ms Bamber earned pounds 40,000 – 68 per cent of the firm’s average – with a pounds 4,500 bonus. Two years later her pounds 43,000 salary had slipped to 54 per cent of the average and she received no bonus.A comparable male colleague who joined in 1993 earned pounds 52,000 – 66 per cent of the firm’s average – with a bonus of pounds 15,000. A year later he was on a pounds 90,000 salary with an pounds 85,000 bonus while Ms Bamber’s salary had only gone up to pounds 47,000.Ms Bamber said that Kazuo Matsuda, the former deputy managing director, “had made it known generally within the trading floor that he was discouraging the recruitment of women and wanted more men in the company”. She added that she thought he did not see her as “sufficiently deferential”, unlike female Japanese employees, who would fetch him coffee and lunch.. The Ministry of Defence has taken out a court injunction banning publication of a book which disclosed details about the work of the top secret SAS, it emerged last night.
A Ministry spokeswoman confirmed the injunction had been obtained from the High Court stopping the book, Immediate Action, from going on sale. The book would have compromised the “operational effectiveness and the personal security of personnel in the SAS,”she said.
It is thought that the book by Andy McNab contained confidential top secret details about the operations of the SAS during the Gulf War in 1991 “There is no question about it. The work of special forces is something we do not discuss,” the spokeswoman added.The decision was taken by the MoD’s legal section in the absence of the Defence Secretary Michael Portillo, who is on holiday. The injunction was granted by the Chancery division of the High Court in London.t More than 200 officers and ratings are being forced out of the Royal Navy in the latest jobs cuts, it was disclosed last night.
The reductions include the first admiral to be made redundant since Nelson’s time – Rear Admiral Robin Shiffner, 53.His job as Director General Fleet Support (Equipment and Support) has been axed under reorganisation plans. It is likely that some ratings selected for redundancy might have to return to sea for a short time until replacements are found.. The man who decides which charities get National Lottery handouts was facing a call for his resignation last night after saying he was “extremely impatient” with deaf people. David Sieff, chairman of the National Lottery Charities Board, came under fire after telling an interviewer that the deaf did not have the same “emotive appeal” as the blind.
Labour MP George Foulkes said Mr Sieff, 56, a director of Marks & Spencer, should “consider his position” at the NLCB.. Westminster City council yesterday gave “special leave” to a former employee of Islington council who was named in the confidential annexe to an inquiry into child abuse in the north London borough The man had been working for Westminster since 1993. The move came as Labour called for a national database of known or suspected child sex offenders.
A spokeswoman for Westminster council said that when the former Islington’s social services worker had been recruited “the appropriate checks” were carried out “and these did not give cause for concern”.The employee, who does not work with children, has since been subject to an independent investigation by Faircheck, a vetting agency, and has been interviewed on a number of occasions “co-operating fully at all times”.
All relevant material has been passed to the city council by Islington, the police and Ian White, the Oxfordshire social services director who conducted the Islington inquiry, the spokeswoman said.But after denying that the employee was suspended and that the council was considering what further action, if any, to take, Westminster said that it had been decided yesterday to grant him special leave “in the interests of all concerned”. An assessment should be completed by the end of the month, the council added.The Centrepoint housing charity also confirmed yesterday that it had suspended one of its social workers after discovering that he had been under suspicion while working for Islington but had never been properly investigated. “He has been suspended while investigations are taking place,” a spokeswoman said.Meanwhile, Labour has written to Michael Howard, the Home Secretary, calling for a national database of child sex offenders and tough new measures against child sex tourism. Last month Mr Howard ordered a review of how to tackle sex tourism.
