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You and Yours: Tribunals, Currency Exchange, Weight-loss Surgery

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31/07/2015

Tribunals, Currency Exchange, Weight-loss Surgery

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Tribunals, Currency Exchange, Weight-loss Surgery

Employment tribunals, sending money abroad and the voices of supermarket checkouts.

People who win their employment tribunal but never get the money they are owed, the hidden cost of sending money overseas, and the changing sound of supermarket checkouts.

Government figures show that a third of people who are owed money from an employer following an employment tribunal, never receive it.

We hear from a listener who sent £60,000 to his daughter in the USA, but lost £2000 to exchange rates.

Plus, the weight loss specialist who has looked at failure rates, and thinks people may be opting for surgery too readily.

And supermarket checkouts are going to get a friendly voice. Radio 4 newsreaders try their hand at warning you about unexpected items in (the) bagging area.

Presenter: Louise Minchin
Producer: Natalie Donovan.

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