New
online guide to negotiating flexible working
Date: Monday 10 October 2005
Working Families’ legal and practical advice and coaching is now available online. A new Interactive Flexible Working Guide, funded by the European Social Fund (ESF), helps parents and carers consider the legal, financial, workplace, childcare and family issues that can affect their working hours, before giving a step by step guide to negotiating the hours they want.
The new guide is available free at:
http://workingfamilies.org.uk/asp/family_zone/flex_work_guide
During working hours – and two evenings a week - Working Families’ legal advisers give advice on negotiating family friendly hours, relevant employment law, maternity and paternity leave, emergency leave, tax credits and benefits. They also offer on-going telephone support to parents and carers who want to make a case for flexible working to their employers. Now the Interactive Guide will allow working families to work through the complex considerations involved - and think about how they can negotiate the hours they want - outside office hours.
Working Families Chief Executive Sarah Jackson said: “We know that many parents and carers feel trapped in a culture of long working hours and short-changed families. Making a properly thought-through business case for flexible working is vital for successfully negotiating the changes they want and need. We hope that our new online guide will help working families who have problems contacting us during working hours to access our service and find the information they need to negotiate more family-friendly ways of working.”
Notes:
Working Families, formerly Parents At Work and New Ways to Work, is a campaigning charity which supports and gives a voice to working parents and carers.
It also helps employers create workplaces which encourage work-life balance for everyone. We want to change the working world for the benefit of
our families, our communities and business.
The freephone legal helpline is funded by the Big Lottery Fund, the European Social Fund and the City Parochial Foundation. It is available on 0800 013 0313. Free factsheets can also be downloaded from the website at www.workingfamilies.org.uk/asp/family_zone/f_factsheets.asp. Working Families also runs a support network and policy forums for working parents of disabled children.
For more information or a pdf of the helpline leaflet, contact:
Telephone: 0161 929 3333
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