Flexible Working
by Philip
Last week was quite a busy week for news - what with natural disasters in China and Burma, the 10p tax u turn and a speech setting out the legislative intentions of the government.
One piece of news that may have been overlooked was the news that parents of children up to the age of 16 will have the right to request flexible working.
The BERR press release is here Some factoids which may be of interest:
- The changes will be introduced in one go.
- Small businesses have a better run rate at accepting requests than big business, no doubt because small business are inherently more flexible and have to have the ability to make changes quickly and without fuss.
- 91% of requests were granted. (that is a higher run rate than I expected)
- 45% of succesful requestees (is there such a word?) were men.
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