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More Women Are Leaving the Construction Industry With Reports of Sexism

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How workplace discrimination is turning away a major segment of trade employees. That's according to a new report from the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) and it's bad news for an industry badly in need of more workers: It needs an estimated 61,000 new hires a month over the next three years to meet housing demand.

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Why Projects Fail

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It is possible to discriminate between healthy and failing projects prior to failure before the project execution phase in the capital facility delivery process. Autodesk & Dodge Data, 2019. The equivalent figures for low-maturity organizations are just 36% and 43%. ( Symptoms of Poor Leadership and Process Failure.

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Frail coronavirus patients may be denied critical care under NHS ‘scale’ system designed to free up ICU beds for those most likely to recover

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It does not discriminate against age, but it does weigh up underlying conditions and overall health. . Hospitals across Britain are still 21,825 ventilators short of the estimated 30,000 it will need when the crisis is at its height. . BRITAIN STILL HAS NO-WHERE NEAR ENOUGH VENTILATORS.

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Fury over NHS ‘coronavirus scoring system’ which treats learning disability patients like a ‘sub-class of the population’

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But it discriminates against people with learning disabilities who may need round-the-clock care, according University of London professor Irene Tuffrey-Wijne. . But it discriminates against people with learning disabilities who may need round-the-clock care, according University of London professor Irene Tuffrey-Wijne (pictured).