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What is flexible working?
The term ‘flexible working’ means lots of different things depending on who you are speaking to. To some it is the ability to work part-time, to others the ability to work from home and to others the ability to work shifts or on a zero hours basis. The right to request flexible working has been…
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Family Friendly Policies
A full set of policies around maternity, paternity and adoption leave and pay need to be developed so that employees feel valued and their skills are not lost from the business, but so that they business is able to function effectively with short and long term absences as a result of the prospective and actual…
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Job Sharing
For most employers, a job does not shrink just because an employee applies for flexible working and as a result many employers are resistant to job share arrangements. The truth is, that for many employers job sharing is just too scary. It is not the way things have traditionally been done and it is a…