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Working Families Announces list of Top Employers for Flexible and Family-Friendly Working in 2022
Working Families has announced its annual list of the top flexible and family-friendly employers in the UK.
Statement from Working Families on the death of Her Majesty The Queen
The Queen once said that family is the core of a thriving community. As a charity with families at its heart, we remember the Queen as a mother, a grandmother, and a great-grandmother who drew strength from her own family and recognised the vital importance of families in UK society.
Statement on the second reading of the Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill
Working Families is delighted to support the Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill. We have worked alongside Stuart McDonald MP and Bliss on this much-needed legislation, which will provide additional leave and pay for employees caring for infants receiving neonatal care.
Law firms, banks and recruiters among winners of the Working Families Best Practice Awards 2022
Work-life balance charity Working Families has announced the winners of the 2022 Best Practice Awards at a celebratory event held at Vintner’s Hall alongside the official event partner, Bright Horizons. The awards celebrate employers whose stand-out cultures and working practices are leading the way in flexible and employee-friendly workplaces.
Despite progress made in pandemic, many parents and carers still lack access to flexible working
A new report from work-life balance charity Working Families and professional coaching organisation Talking Talent has revealed inequalities around who can access flexible working.
Working Families responds to Queen’s Speech
Having promised to make flexible working the default, to provide workers in insecure jobs with rights to have more predictable schedules, to extend redundancy protections, to reduce pregnancy and maternity discrimination, and to offer neo-natal care and carers leave, there is still no sign of the Employment Bill.
Finalists Revealed for the Working Families Best Practice Awards 2022
We have announced the shortlist for our 2022 Best Practice Awards. The awards celebrate employers whose stand-out cultures and working practices are leading the way in flexible and employee-friendly workplaces.
Nominations now open for the 2022 Movers and Shakers: Working Dads Employer Awards
We have partnered with MusicFootballFatherhood and the University of Birmingham’s Equal Parenting project to support the launch the inaugural 2022 Movers and Shakers: Working Dads Employer Awards.
Making flexible working the default – Our response to the BEIS consultation
In Autumn 2021 the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy launched a consultation on a series of proposals to make flexible working the default employment position.
The search begins for the UK’s best employers for flexible and family-friendly working
Working Families, in partnership with Arnold Clark, are looking to find 2022’s leading employers, who are working to create outstanding flexible and employee-friendly workplaces. Entries are open to organisations of all sizes and sectors, via the Working Families website.
The Flexible Working Taskforce launches new employer guidance on hybrid working to promote best practice
Members of the Flexible Working Taskforce, including Working Families, have published new practical guidance to help employers develop fair and sustainable hybrid working practices.
‘Huge barriers’ remain to effective flexible working despite greater government focus, report warns
Under government proposals, British workers will be able to request the right to work flexibly from their first day in a job, instead of after six months, which is the current rule – but researchers say this doesn’t go far enough, and that all jobs should be designed and advertised as flexible unless there is a strong business case for not doing so.