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22/01/2009
Recession hitting female workers 'harder' |
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The recession will have more effect on female employees than male, according to the Trades Union Council (TUC).
A report published by the TUC has found that the women's redundancy rate has increased more quickly than the male rate.
Between January and September 2008 the female redundancy rate climbed by 2.3 percentage points, while the male redundancy rate increased by 1.2.
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber says that this is going to be an "equal opportunities" recession as redundancies in male dominated areas - such as construction and manufacturing - are balanced with job losses in the female-dominated retail and healthcare sectors.
However, he adds that job losses among men are "more likely to hit the headlines as women tend to work in smaller workplaces where redundancies go unnoticed by the media".
There are close to 12.7 million women of working age in paid formal employment in the UK and around 40 per cent of these have part-time jobs - compared to 11 per cent of men who work on the same basis.
Should between 20 and 99 people be made redundant at a single company, an employee or their representatives should be given at least 30 days' notice, the Guardian reports.
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