Flexible working rights to be extended
The government has announced that the right to request flexible working will be extended to staff with children up to the age of 16.
Business secretary John Hutton has accepted the recommendations of Sainsbury's HR director Imelda Walsh's report into the extension of the right to request. An extra 4.5 million parents are expected to benefit from the move - likely to come into force in April 2009. Walsh has spent the past six months undertaking a review of how the right can be extended. Currently it is available to parents with children aged six or under, and registered carers. She was widely expected to take the most conservative of the options available to her, advising the government only to include parents with children aged up to 12. She also recommended that the changes be implemented in one go, rather than a staged introduction, to "avoid creating confusion for business and employees".
However recently published research from the CIPD (the Labour Market Outlook survey) found that 69% of UK employers 'never or occasionally' grant homeworking.
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