London 2024: A vision for a family-friendly city
In 2024 Londoners go to the polls to decide their mayor and London Assembly. Parents and carers across London will be doing so in the face of cost-of-living pressures, as well as facing challenges around childcare costs, parental leave, and access to flexible working and employment justice all creating barriers in the workplace.
At Working Families, our aim is to remove these barriers so parents and carers can thrive at work and at home and so we are asking candidates for the 2024 London Mayoral and London Assembly election to sign up to the policy pledges in our election briefing paper.
The London election offers an opportunity to make enormous progress for parents and carers by:
- Ensuring the rights of working parents and carers are upheld by a justice system that understands their needs.
- Supporting employers and employees so that everyone can easily access flexible working arrangements.
- Making sure that parents can afford to choose how they divide the care for their baby because they have adequate maternity and paternity pay, and enhanced parental leave.
We are asking candidates to pledge:
If elected, I will work to ensure that:
- Funding is directed towards services which ensure that those most at risk of having their employment rights infringed are aware of their rights and entitlements, and how they can access them, and which support employers to make their staff aware of their employment rights.
- I am committed to encouraging public sector employers and larger employers to trial designing and advertising all jobs with flexible options and to report on the results.
- I am active in encouraging business to increase parental leave pay rates to an affordable level for lower income families, to expand coverage, and provide fathers with greater opportunities to take leave.
