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Financial Abuse, Coffee Shop Remote Working, Shared Parental Leave

One in eight women in joint mortgages suffer economic abuse according to a report out today. Plus café shop owners call for a code of conduct for remote workers.

On today's You and Yours, a report out today into the impact of financial abuse for women who hold joint mortgages, finds one in eight women are impacted in some way. We hear from one woman about her experience plus Sam Smethers from the charity Surviving Economic Abuse tells us why they're calling for a change in the law.

Are you someone who likes to work from coffee shops, setting up your laptop, spreading out your things and asking for the free wifi? Lots of people do but some business owners have had enough. We hear from one who's set new rules around when and how people do it. Plus we ask Alex Bell from trade magazine Café Life, how big an issue its become.

And a big study into the impact of the introduction of Shared Parental Leave finds it had little impact on the number of dads taking time off after the birth of a child. The report claims that the low level of payments and complex eligibility criteria are the reasons for the low take-up. We hear from two dads about their experiences plus Dr Joanna Clifton Sprigg, economist at the University of Bath and co-author of the research, explains more about their findings.

PRESENTER - WINIFRED ROBINSON

PRODUCER - CATHERINE EARLAM

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