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1.085 documents for flexible working hours for parents
  • AS PART of a new frontier for the British welfare state, the Government wants to encourage more women to go to work while their children are looked after in council nurseries. There will be nine months' maternity leave, more flexible working hours for parents and pressure put on businesses to allow mothers to take time off if they have a child under 17 who is taking exams or is ill.

  • ... part time in the project but had a flexible schedule and could adapt her working hours to the ... behavioural questionnaire completed by parents and teachers. It consists of 25 items divided into...

  • What is the work like? It is the job of a childminder to cater for the physical, educational, social and emotional needs of children in their care. They are based in their own home and aim to provide a warm, caring environment, along with stimulating play and learning activities. Childminders also plan, prepare and serve meals to the children and help with hand washing and toileting. Dealing with parents is important as childminders see them daily and share information about their child Are the hours long? Childminders negotiate their own hours but as they need to cater for working parents their hours are likely to be long. It is a flexible career that suits many different life styles and most full-time work is with babies and children under five. It is quite common for childminders to ...

  • It seems that every party has policies aimed squarely at families this election. The Conservative are offering tax perks to married couples, while Labour is promising to double paid paternity leave for four weeks.

    ..."Single parents don't earn that much money. I don't know what the ... he criticised ubiquitous plans for more flexible working hours for parents. "If the employer doesn'...

  • RATTLED David Cameron has been forced to tear up the Queen's Speech to avoid a Tory rebellion. The PM has put plans for a major shake-up in the House of Lords on the back-burner following his battering at the polls.

    ... Tory MPs to help the "strivers" - hard-working families struggling to cope due to Government cuts... help for families by introducing more flexible working hours for parents and a long-promised shak...

  • RATTLED David Cameron has been forced to tear up the Queen's Speech to avoid a Tory rebellion. The PM has put plans for a major shake-up in the House of Lords on the back-burner following his battering at the polls.

    ... Tory MPs to help the "strivers" - hard-working families struggling to cope due to Government cuts... help for families by introducing more flexible working hours for parents and a long-promised shak...

  • FIVE million extra people may soon enjoy the right to flexible working hours, it was announced yesterday. Currently, four million parents with children under six can ask employers for family-friendly schedules.

  • The article reports on two years of ethnographic research carried out within a Gypsy community in an area on the outskirts of Porto, in northern Portugal. Data were collected during participating observation in labour environments (fairs) and residential settings (a council ward) as well as from interviews. The aim is to contribute to our knowledge and understanding of the lifestyle and opportunities of a particular community, in particular what employment means in this community and the relationship it establishes with the wider labour market. The data show (a) that capitalism of flexible accumulation affected the marginalized ethnic groups who live on the periphery of the system, and (b) that the relationship between a specific Portuguese Gypsy community and employment is mediated by ...

    ... three, nuclear families exist-usually, parents with single children and a married daughter or son... levels, the existence of supervision, seven hours of daily work done in closed spaces-create a situa... security guards in building construction, working without any contract and without any supervision. ...

  • Parents with young children are being forced to accept salary cuts or a drop in job status if they ask for flexible working hours, a survey says. The poll, by charity Maternity Alliance, says 27pc of parents are worse off since the right to request flexible work was introduced a year ago

  • ... for new statistics on all productive work hours, whether paid or unpaid. This new information base... idea that women carry an unfair burden, working disproportionately long hours in jobs and at home ...When flexible jobs are not available, adaptive women may take or... in Finland, with policymakers as well as parents. A similar scheme was introduced in Norway, with e...



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