Labour is putting itself on a collision course with business today by proposing that all employees should have the right to request part-time work.
All 29 million workers should have a right that is at present granted only to parents with young families, according to the minister in charge of family policy.
Beverley Hughes, the Minister for Children, calls for changes to reflect the growing demand of people to be able to work flexibly. She proposes that all jobs be advertised as possible part-time or flexitime positions, unless there is a sound business case not to.
Her proposals are contained in Politics for a New Generation, a book on Labour’s future agenda with contributions from a host of the Government’s rising stars.
We aren’t even going to ask why the Minister for Children is calling for job benefits for the childless because we’re not sure we want to know. We just hope the Minister for Middle-Aged Men is awake enough to ground her and dock her allowance.
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A minister for children? What won't they think of next?
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