Bumping this thread to float something I think we should be thinking about.
I'm copying and pasting this from a post I made on an AIBU thread (slightly tangential to the main thread, but worth thinking about - I've also put it on the site stuff GMB thread). The thread was started by a woman whose employer is now insisting everyone go back into the office, even though she's successfully worked-from-home up till now - and because she's not a keyworker, she can't send her children to school.
I think there's a wider issue here, and I bloody well hope some of the trade unions are keeping stats on this. All companies' turnover will have taken a hell of a hit. A lot of them will be wanting to lay off staff, but wondering how to do it without having to pay huge redundancies payments. If they can make it impossible for staff to continue to do the job by insisting they work in the office (knowing they have children) they can push a proportion of their employees into resigning.
I think it could (in some instances) be a form of constructive dismissal, and it will undoubtedly hit women disproportionately. But in the general chaos of the post-covid economic crash, I worry that there will be so much shit hitting the fan that no-one will have either the will or the necessary stats to join up the dots.
This is exactly the sort of thing the GMB should be following up on. But the GMB have decided they hate women.