Employment minister: Normalising flexible working will ‘break down barriers'
Employers should be more imaginative with flexible working arrangements, rather than just restricting workers to part-time work, says employment relations minister Jenny Willott.
Speaking at The Work and Family Show, Willott said that by introducing the right to request flexible working across the whole workforce later this year, it would remove some of the obstacles for women...
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