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Doubt Cast on Flexible Working Success
The Department of Trade and Industry claims that parent-friendly regulations, now one year old, are a success. But a new survey argues that flexible working comes at a price. Last week, the DTI welcomed the first anniversary of the Employment Act 2002, citing research that found 8 out of 10 requests to work flexibly were approved. However, a survey carried out by the ch...
News | 14 Apr 2004
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48: How the 48-hour working week could push employers to the max
... and straightforward across what is now 27 different systems and approaches. There are 27 different definitions of what constitutes `working time'. Cf: Why does the uK need an optout from the 48 hour working week? GT: You are going to have to ask the UK Government that; I've no idea why. There's no doubt that the existing Directive provides insufficient flexibility in that it averages out the 48 hours over 20 a four-month reference period. One of the things we want to do in Parliament is extend that reference period to 12 months so that you can deal with ebbs and flows of business. Now the Governm...
Magazine issue | 5 Feb 2009
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Identity charade
...such a policy or code justify denying a woman pay protection that she would have had if the employer had paid her equal pay when it ought to have done. The question is whether the employer can show that its decision is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. The Court of Appeal did not doubt that it is legitimate to have as an objective the introduction of a job evaluation scheme which would eliminate discriminatory pay for the future, and the desire to cushion those who had suffered a pay reduction against a sudden drop in pay. The trickier question, however, is whether it will be pro...
Magazine issue | 3 Sep 2008
