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  1. Call for employers to be more carer-friendly

    Ministers announced yesterday that six government departments will sign an agreement with Employers for Carers on how they will work in partnership to develop and promote support for carers in the workplace. This will include guidance for employers and raising awareness of employees’ right to request flexible working. Workplace Law’s flexible working factsheet advises that from 6 April 2003 employe...

    News | 12 Mar 2010

  2. Landmark ruling gives private sector carers equal rights to those in public sector

    A landmark ruling in the Employment Appeal Tribunal last week means that all carers are now protected by anti-discrimination legislation in the workplace. The decision comes as part of a long-running legal battle in the case of Coleman v. Attridge Law (now EBR Attridge Law LLP).  Carer and employee, Sharon Coleman, took her employer, Attridge Law, to court alleging disability...

    Case | 2 Nov 2009

  3. Millions unaware of carers’ flexible working rights

    ...s week has shown that millions of people are unaware that caring for a spouse or relative gives you the right to ask your employer to work flexibly. The survey, carried out by ICM Research on behalf of the Government Equalities Office, revealed that the majority (82%) of adults aren’t aware that carers are legally entitled to ask their employer for flexible working arrangements. More than a third (35%) of people surveyed had caring responsibilities which could make them eligible to ask. People also have very different views about what makes someone a carer. Just 13% thought it was doing things l...

    News | 11 Sep 2009

  4. Carers in private sector "are protected by ECJ decision"

     A UK Employment Tribunal judge ruled yesterday (27 November 2008) that UK anti-disability discrimination legislation can implement a recent ECJ decision which extends greater protection to carers in the workplace without going back to Parliament. This means that private sectors workers who also have caring responsibilities now have the same level of protection as public sector workers who for legal reasons were able to rely on the ECJ ruling immediately. Judge Mary Stacey made her ruling wh...

    News | 28 Nov 2008

  5. Employers should help carers at work, says ACAS

    This week is Carers Week (9-15 June), and to mark the event ACAS is urging employers to help employees who are carers to juggle work with caring responsibilities. There are three million employees that are also carers and, according to ACAS, work is important for the carer’s own wellbeing, social inclusion and finan...

    News | 10 Jun 2008

  6. Carers’ rights back on Government agenda

    Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched a “national debate” into the future of care and support services. This comes in anticipation of the National Carers Strategy, which will see the employment rights of carers come to the fore.  Although the debate and focuses on making care services in the UK fairer and more affordable, the National Carers Strategy (due to be launched by the Prime Minister in June) will put the spotlight back on carers and emplo...

    News | 13 May 2008

  7. Win for carer could lead to new discrimination rights

    ... claims she was "harassed" into resigning from her job because she has a disabled son has won the initial stages of a landmark legal case the European Court of Justice. The Advocate Genenal said that Sharon Coleman had suffered “discrimination by association”, and this could lead to millions of carers having new rights.Coleman claims she was forced to leave her job at Attridge Law in March 2005 because she was not allowed as much flexibility in her work as other employees with children. She also claims she was called “lazy” for trying to take time off to look after her son, and was accused o...

    News | 31 Jan 2008

  8. Millions unaware of carers’ flexible working rights

    Statistically the vast majority of stay at home carers are women. I think it's a bit pedantic to criticise for that.

    Comment | 15 Sep 2009

  9. Millions unaware of carers’ flexible working rights

    ...ustrations. As Minister for Women and Equality, she should know that making the statement, 'stay-at-home- daughter', etc.. is not in accordance with Equal Rights and could be construed as Sex Discrimination. On the practical side, in the world where real people live, sons are just as likely to be carers as daughters. This has been the case for many years. I think that the self-appointed 'Equality Champion' should take a refresher course in Equal Opps, although maybe her title gives away her true leaning in these matters. Peter Edwards

    Comment | 12 Sep 2009

  10. Carers week: a focus on flexible working

    Carers Week runs from 11–17 June and employers are being urged to revisit their flexible working policy to include carers. The right to request flexible working has been extended to carers since 6 April 2007. Before, the right to request flexible working was only applicable to parents with young c...

    News | 14 Jun 2007

  11. Flexible working for carers – definition of relative to be amended

    As you are aware, the right to request flexible working provided for in the Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) Regulations 2002 was recently extended to carers of adults, a “carer” being an employee who is or expects to be caring for an adult who: is married to, or the partner or civil partner of the employee; or is a “relative” of the employee, defined as a mother, father, adopter, guardian, parent-in-law, step-parent, son, step-son...

    News | 30 Apr 2007

  12. DTI revises employer guidance on right to request to cover carers

    From 6 April 2007, under the Work and Families Act, carers will have the same right to request flexible working as mothers of young children do. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has now published revised guidance on the issue. This guidance has been designed to provide advice for employers and employees about how the statutory right to request...

    News | 18 Dec 2006

  13. Should employers do more to support carers?

    To mark Carers Rights Day today (8 December) employers are being urged to do more to help the growing number of employees who have to juggle work with caring for a relative or friend. According to the charity Carers UK, many of the UK’s six million carers are not receiving the benefits or help they are entitl...

    News | 8 Dec 2006

  14. Work and Families Act: definition of a ‘carer’ announced

    ...nnounced the defintion of what a carer is for the purposes of the right to request flexible working clause in the Work and Families Act. Employees with young children already legally have the right to request flexible working and under the Work and Families Act 2006 this right will be extended to carers from 6 April 2007. The definiton of what constitutes a carer has been decided after consultation with various carers groups and business organisations. The defintion of carer will be an employee who is or expects to be caring for an adult who: is married to, or the partner or civil part...

    News | 9 Nov 2006

  15. Carer dismissed for attacking patient loses claim

    A carer accused of threatening a brain-injured person with a pair of scissors has lost her unfair dismissal claim, the Cambridge Evening News reports. According to the newspaper, the employment tribunal also threw out a claim by Andrea Moran that she had suffered detrimental treatment after complai

    Case | 8 Jun 2005

  16. Government Pledges to Extend Flexible Working Rights to Carers

    Prime Minister Tony Blair has promised to extend flexible working rights to carers. Such rights have been enjoyed by working parents since 6 April 2003. Broadly, employers would be obliged to consider applications for flexible working from employees who look after sick or disabled relatives. The purpose of the application must be to enable the parent to care for the relative. ...

    News | 6 May 2004

  17. Carer who slipped on wet laundry awarded £213,000

    A care worker who was injured after slipping on wet laundry and had to give up work as a result has been awarded more than £200,000 compensation after UNISON took up her case. The payout comes after bosses at Newcastle City Council initially offered her just £9,500 in damages. Residential home car

    News | 3 Oct 2001

  18. Call for wilful neglect to be criminal offence for carers

    The wilful neglect of any patient should become a criminal offence for doctors and nurses in England, as it is in France, suggest ethicists in an article published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Normally, healthcare professionals in England can only face prosecution if a serious error

    News | 2 Feb 2011

  19. Call for wilful neglect to be criminal offence for carers

    Ok so how long is it before the workplace collateral damage of omission to care in addition to any systemic friendly fire that results in the harm of contributory neglence becomes a crime without the victim having to be actually dead to qaulify for corporate manslaughter ? Just a thought.......

    Comment | 3 Feb 2011

  20. Landmark ruling gives private sector carers equal rights to those in public sector

    Wooooo, this is gonna drop the cat amongst the pigeons.....

    Comment | 3 Nov 2009

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