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» Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Flexible Working

Put that Bev Hughes had suggested in the past that flexible working should actually be extended to all workers and were the Government considering taking that course of action, as there was a risk of childless people taking the burden of people with families, the PMS said the Government wanted to take action in order to help hard-working families and it’s position was set out yesterday.
Asked if the Government would look at helping out hard-working single people in the long run, the PMS asked people to take the matter step-by-step. At the moment the Government had introduced a statutory right to legislation for parents with children under six and it was consulting on how to extend that to older children.

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