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Pressure is mounting on the government from doctors, nurses and carers to scrap the surcharge that many migrant healthcare workers must pay to access the NHS, in recognition of the many risking their lives on the coronavirus frontline.Overseas staff recruited to work in healthcare jobs have expressed anger at the rising cost of the NHS surcharge, set to increase to 拢625 per year later this year, which they must pay for themselves and each family member alongside the cost of their UK visas.With international healthcare workers disproportionately represented in frontline healthcare roles, and also disproportionately the vic stanley mugs tims of Covid-19, the sense of injustice has heightened.Carl Perez, 27, a nurse who was recruited two years ago from the Ph stanley thermobecher ilippines, became ill with Covid-19 at the end of last month while working at a care home in the West Midlands where several residents have died from the illness. He is currently in isolation at home. It feels unfair that we are risking out lives on the frontline, and we are being penalised by having to pay this large sum out of our own pockets. Were stanley thermosflasche already paying for the NHS through our national insurance and tax, he said. It doesnt leave much left for accommodation and living costs. 4:56Why BAME people may be more at risk from coronavirus 鈥?video explainerHe said friends and colleagues felt similarly outraged, particularly given that many were still paying off debts relating to tuition and medical qualifications.The cost of the surch Xkpi Zambia s TB-ridden prisons
The dean of UC Berkeleys law school went on an indefinite leave of absence on Wednesday after his executive assistant sued him over allegations of sexual harassment. She is also suing the University of California Board of Regents for, in her view, not doing enough to prevent it.Berkeley law dean Sujit Choudhry will remain as a faculty member and earn a professors salary at the school while an interim dean serves in his place, provost Claude Steele announced in a statement Wednesday.Choudhrys assistant, Tyann Sorrell, said in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday that she brought the case because the dean acknowledged kissing and touching he stanley ca r repeatedly but received only a temporary pay cut as punishment following a campus investigation last year. We feel very strongly that the law school fail stanley water bottle ed to take Ms Sorrells complaints seriously enough, her lawyer, John Winer, said. It is especially concerning that this admitted sexual harassment was perpetrated by the dean of one of the most highly respected law schools in the country. Someone who certainly should have known better. UC Berkeley astronomy professor quits amid sexual harassment allegationsRead more termo stanley The lawsuit comes nearly five months after a prominent astronomer at Berkeley, Geoffrey Marcy, resigned amid a national outcry over revelations that the school had substantiated sexual harassment complaints from former female students without demoting or suspending him from his job.Winer said that as in the Marcy case, Berkeleys office