Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Furlough and redundancy
Your employment rights if you are made redundant or put on furlough
Read moreFrom the legal frontline of coronavirus: the diary of a Working Families adviser
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We’re hearing heartbreaking stories every day - like Sian, a mother who is unable to juggle working from home with caring for her two young children. She rang us in tears because she was told that taking unpaid leave was her only option.
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Weathering the Storm
The COVID-19 pandemic and working parents
New report exploring the issues still facing the working parents getting in touch with us about COVID-19, and simple ways the government and UK employers could go further to support them to stay in work and help ensure they don’t lose out financially.
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Finalists Revealed for the Working Families Best Practice Awards 2020
Work-life balance charity Working Families has announced the shortlist for its 2020 Best Practice Awards. The awards celebrate employers whose stand-out cultures and working [...]
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New report: Working parents are losing out due to COVID-19
A report from charity Working Families calls for the government and employers to go further in supporting working parents during the pandemic.
Working Families’ Statement on COVID-19 School Closures
Many working parents and carers with young children are already working from home, as recommended by the Government. Now that schools are closed, they find themselves needing [...]
Family friendly rights: what’s coming in 2020?
Keep up-to-date with family friendly rights: what’s coming in 2020. This course flags up cases and other developments which you need to know, what the main changes are and [...]
Half day training for advisers: How to help parents in employment
How to help parents in employment: asking for flexible working, taking time off for your children and help with childcare costs
Evening emails and the “always on” culture overwhelm working parents and threaten to sabotage work-life balance improvements, according to annual survey
More than half of parents (58%) are working extra, unpaid hours, as campaigners warn many families and firms are losing fight to keep jobs “human-sized” 48% of working parents [...]
Successful Flexible Working – training for employees
Find out how to flex your work to fit your life with an immersive, interactive Working Families virtual Workshop.
Parents/carers and best-practice employers agree that companies should publish their flexible working and family-related policies
New figures from work-life balance charity Working Families [1] show that both parents/carers and best-practice employers alike are overwhelmingly in favour of greater [...]
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Cranfield University
Royal College of Nursing
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Drax Group
RSM
QBE
Kings College London
Mott MacDonald
Independent Living Fund Scotland
Lloyd's
Hill Dickinson LLP
Housing 21
MUFG
Linklaters
Surrey Police
Financial Ombudsman Service
Harper Macleod LLP
BLM
Gowling WLG
De Montfort University
Sheffield Hallam University
Brunel University
Charles Russell Speechlys
Federated Hermes
Experian
London Legacy Development Corporation
Sussex Police
United Insurance Brokers
DWF
Simmons & Simmons
Northern Trust
Bank of Ireland
Cambridge University Press
Deloitte
Santander
LUC
Imperial College London
Wellcome Trust
Sky
Royal Bank of Scotland
Grant Thornton
Barclays
Schroders
DAS Group
London Luton Airport
Lloyds Banking Group
Superdrug
University of Portsmouth
Brodies LLP
BNP Paribas
Nationwide
Zurich Insurance
Charles Taylor Plc
Hogan Lovells
University of Manchester
Anglo American
Ministry of Justice
Freeths
Verizon Media
Unum
Oliver Wyman
CDC Group
Cushman & Wakefield
Norton Rose Fulbright
Dentsu Aegis Network
MBDA Systems