Consultation on extending flexible working rights confirmed

 

Consultation on extending flexible working rights confirmed

The Government has announced two proposals to make it easier for people to balance work and family life, one extending the right to request flexible working to parents with children under 18 and the other extending the right to flexible working to all employees.

Currently parents of children under 17, or under 18 if the child is disabled, as well as carers of certain adults, already have the right to request flexible working, to help them balance their work and caring responsibilities.  Employment Relations Minister Edward Davey has announced two proposals which the Government believes will create more flexible, family friendly workplaces:

  •     the right to request flexible working will be extended to parents
        of children under 18 from April 2011 – benefiting nearly 300,000
        more people;
  •     a consultation will be launched later this year looking at how to
        extend the right to request flexible working to all employees,
        and the design of a new system of flexible parental leave.

The Government has also confirmed that, as an interim measure, the Additional Paternity Leave Regulations 2010 (which apply to parents of children due on or after 3 April 2011) will remain in force to encourage shared parenting from the earliest stages of pregnancy.

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