New Business Programme For Parents
One of our experts, Antonia Chitty, has just launched a brand new business programme specifically geared towards parents. The press release is below, I urge you to take a look:
One of the downsides of running your own business is that you are the one who needs to solve all the problems and drive the business forward. Doing this singlehandedly can only get you so far. Fortunately, Mumpreneur Guide Antonia Chitty has devised a programme to help mums in business get support and solve their business problems, any time.
The myth of work/life balance
Another day, another article or blog about the ever-elusive work/life balance. The problem with work/life balance? It doesn’t exist. It’s a black and white term that doesn’t acknowledge the grey of life and serves only as eternal fodder for the media and puts continual pressure on people trying desperately to achieve it.
Think about what the term ‘balance’ means to you. Are you picturing a pair of scales with equal amounts in each dish? The definition of balance in Dictionary.com is ‘a state of equilibrium or equipoise’. Is this what you’re trying to achieve in your life?
EU Legislation to increase maternity leave and pressure on business
Paid maternity leave could increase to 20 weeks for women in the UK if new plans, agreed by the European Parliament’s women’s committee yesterday, are passed through the European Parliament in three weeks’ time.
Current European rules give pregnant women 14 weeks leave fully paid. In the UK, pregnant women get a year off, with the first six weeks on 90% pay, followed by 33 weeks on Statutory Maternity Pay. The rest is unpaid.
I don’t want a flexible job – I want a flexible income
We’ve had an increasing number of requests from our members to put less flexible jobs on our job board and more links to reputable ways of earning a per action income.
These are ways for anyone with access to the internet to perform an action on behalf of a client and in return get paid for that action. These actions could be data entry, taking a call, creating links, performing social media tasks, the list goes on. They offer the ultimate in flexibility because if you don’t do the work you don’t get paid – if you do you do. They can be dropped and picked up as you wish.
Family Leave Insurance – Really?
President Obama has slipped a little gem into his proposed budget – family leave insurance.
Having a baby is a leading cause of poverty traps in the USA, the extra cost combined with time off can cause a down spiral that can put families over the poverty line. What Obama proposes is a fund that would help states launch family leave insurance programs by covering start up costs, and it’s a big deal for the economic security of America’s families.
Paid family leave helps stop family poverty before it starts by offering a bridge of economic security when parents must take time off after a new child arrives. With family leave insurance in place, new parents receive pay via the insurance fund when they take the essential time to adjust to a new child and recover from childbirth.
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