Employment Law & HR update 09/08/2011
According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and
Development (CIPD), flexible working is positive for both employees
and employers.
Such are the benefits that the CIPD has called upon the government
to extend the right to request flexible working to all employees.
The body has also said that the government should ensure that it
sticks to its roll out deadline of 2015.
The CIPD's response to the government's recent Modern Workplaces
consultation was to urge the government not to bow to pressure to
exempt small businesses and start-ups from the flexible working
regulations. This, said the body, would create a two-tier labour
market.
Employee relations adviser at the CIPD, Mike Emmott, said,
“Extending the right to request flexible working to all employees
is long overdue. Restricting it to groups of parents and carers
creates a mistaken assumption that flexibility is a perk that is
good for some but not others.
“Organisations have grasped the reality that an employee who gives
everything they can within flexible working hours offers more than
someone reluctantly working a ‘typical’ working day because that is
all that is on offer,” Mr Emmott went on to say.
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