Sentences with phrase «as flexible parental leave»

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If we want both mothers and fathers to have the option of flourishing as employees and parents then we must make sure that proposals to extend fathers» entitlement to parental leave and flexible working come into force, and that the costs of childcare do not continue to be borne disproportionately by mothers.

Employers can also take steps to help fathers address conflict, such as forming employee networks for fathers, promoting training, offering flexible work arrangements and providing gender - neutral parental leave.

The major policy announcement on free school meals was the obvious move in this direction — as well as being a sop to middle class voters who lost out after cuts to child benefit — but Nick Clegg's speech is full of references to policies which help in day - to - day life: the pupil premium, flexible parental leave, free childcare, a cap on social care costs.

Negotiations came to a grinding halt in February this year, when the DFA and the university failed to reach an agreement on the key issues of salaries and the number of teaching positions in each faculty, as well as a host of other topics such as parental leave, nondiscrimination, flexible retirement, technology - assisted classes, and peer review in tenure cases.

The answer: The relative lack of workplace «packages» of policies such as paid sick time, paid vacation, flexible work hours and paid maternal or parental leave, said co-researcher Matthew Andersson, Ph.D., assistant professor of sociology at Baylor University and formerly a researcher at Yale University's Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course.

They also want to allow workers the right to a period of a year's unpaid leave to care for a relative, as well as working to increase the uptake of flexible working environments and shared parental leave as the UK still lags behind the EU in this area.

In determining the Top 50 firms, Working Mother scores firms on factors such as female representation and advancement at the firm, professional development opportunities, paid parental leave, and flexible schedules.

The editors considered factors such as women's representation at the partner level, female promotion rate, paid parental leave and flexible work arrangements.

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1 - 4 Current trends include extending the period of available leave (as per recent changes in Canada, where eligible parents can share up to a full year of maternity and parental leave benefits), promoting paternal leave, and adding more flexible options.