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Guaranteed part time work
HSBC claims to be the first large UK employer to guarantee part-time work when parents return after maternity or paternity leave. It has announced that it will offer a part-time role equivalent to 2.5...
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Shared parental leave and flexible working: some survey results
Shared parental leave – Working Families and Netmums Survey A survey of 1500 mothers for Working Families and Netmums found that only 17% thought their partners would want to take shared leave (as...
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Nick Clegg: “A modern workforce is a flexible workforce”– Government to...
Nick Clegg yesterday announced major changes intended to increase flexibility in employment and to remove barriers to working for women and carers. These changes create a new “flexible parental leave”...
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The Children and Families Bill – shared parental leave and flexible working
The Children and Families Bill was published yesterday, giving effect to the proposals for reform announced in November 2012. It includes new rights to shared parental leave and pay and the extension...
View ArticleACAS publishes draft code of practice on the extended right to request...
Julie recently blogged on the changes to flexible working requests being introduced in the Children and Families Bill, which are expected to come into effect in 2014. One of the new changes is that the...
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Flexible working – how far can you stretch?
From 30 June, all employees with 26 weeks’ service will have the right to request flexible working for any reason. There will be no obligation on the employer to agree to a request, just to consider...
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The extended right to request flexible working
Currently employees caring for adults or children under the age of 17 (or 18 if disabled) have the right to request a flexible working pattern. This is being extended from 30 June 2014, so that all...
View ArticleEmployment Law DIY – work/life balance and competing applications for...
At the moment, the majority of those who ask for flexibility at work are women – mainly to deal with childcare. That is changing. The introduction of shared parental leave both responds to and promotes...
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