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 [...]
-->Read OnI 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 [...]
-->Read OnFamily 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 [...]
-->Read OnHelp us to promote your flexible working needs
I did mention back in November that I was going to use members and readers as occasional guinea pigs – well here’s experiment 1. Phase II of global domination. In a very dark room, where we keep our web programmers, a new website is being built to promote the ‘Supporting Parents In Business’ campaign as [...]
-->Read OnFlexible Working Bombshell!!
UK ministers are considering giving all employees the right to ask for flexible working hours “from the beginning” of a new job as part of plans to encourage a fundamental shift in working habits. Yvette Cooper seems to have dropped any softly-softly approach to reforming the British labour market and dropped a big one on [...]
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