[PDF] Top 20 Working Time and Flexibility in the UK

... When making a request the employee, as expressed at s.80F(1)(a) of the Employment Rights Act, has three options: a change to working hours/times, a change to working from home, or a combination of the two. ... See full document

... and working- time arrangements conducted in ...some flexibility in the hours they worked, i.e. could ‘bank’ working time in order to take time off later (12%) or could vary their ... See full document

... European Working Time Directive (EWTD) on the working hours of UK ...the working hours of doctors with a variety of control groups before and after the implementation of the ... See full document

... the UK regions, however, where such adjustments have been shown to be rather weak and unemployment differentials rather stable, the macroeconomic explanations are relevant, especially in explaining the part of ... See full document

... functional flexibility, in particular (and especially its internal flexibility aspects), is difficult to obtain even with the most detailed survey ...the UK, Evans (1999) found that occupational ... See full document

... In addition, the findings reveal that measures implemented in consultancy firms to support women can actually serve to generate and reinforce multifaceted and interconnected gender divisions, with implications for ... See full document

... Dem ographic changes are out wit h t he cont rol of t he em ployers. There are fewer people of working age available t o be included in t he Labour Market ( Heap, 2005) . I n order t o m aint ain a workforce, em ... See full document

... quality time together as a family is at the heart of the concept of work-life ...flexible working on couples coordination of their daily work schedules in the ...flexible working: flexibility ... See full document

... employees’ flexibility factor, since the leave schemes are the arrangements that have been seen to accommodate to the needs of the worker the ...employers’ flexibility factor, with all the temporary ... See full document

... The pointed specificity is not among the priorities of the policy-makers in the field of labour market, employment and labour conditions. As already mentioned, it is considered that the general legal frame, the Labour ... See full document

... Flexible Working Regulations are a procedural intervention aimed at regulating best practice in working time negotiation rather than substantively providing working time ... See full document

... In response to this need, the five-year law enacted at the end of 1993 introduced new measures to allow for greater flexibility in working time as a means to respond to fluctuations in p[r] ... See full document

... This book reflects enormous ongoing interest in work–life balance (WLB), as well as pressing concerns about the impacts of post-2008 recession on individuals, workplaces and societies. Traditional gendered workplace ... See full document

... the UK Understanding Society Survey, an annual survey which follows around 40,000 UK household over time which began in 2009 as a successor to the UK BHPS longitudinal survey, and currently ... See full document

... Heineken is one of the leading companies in the brewery industry worldwide. They have an annual turnover of more than 18 billion euros and employ 76.191 people of which 4.053 FTE’s are working in the Netherlands. ... See full document

... the UK, the NHS adopted the EWTD in 1997 (Goodling, 2009; Thorpe, ...Work Time Directive, the main employer the NHS and trainers of doctors such as the Royal Colleges were not so keen on the idea of ... See full document

... Overall, a response rate of 24% was achieved, which is significantly higher than both the estimated participation of adults in US surveys (18.1% by Bickart and Schmittlein (1999)) and that reported by Wright and Schwager ... See full document

... the UK are more likely to be in full-time employment (Owen, 1994) consistently over the course of all life stages (Holdsworth & Dale, 1997) than women from other ethnic ...of working for ... See full document

... partners, working without a local partner on an intermittent (or even one-time) basis provided the greatest flexibility to the STEGH participants, but represented the least integration locally and ... See full document

... flexible working and WLB by presenting midwives’ views and experiences and by exploring the implications for ...flexible working and WLB present midwives and the midwifery profession with a number of ... See full document