Employment Rights
The case for extending paid leave for miscarriage
As Baby Loss Awareness Week begins, we discuss the importance of having a miscarriage policy in the workplace.
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Work Life Balance
Supporting carers at work
A Working Families webinar for National Work Life Week looked at how progressive employers... read more
Work Life Balance
Be less perfect
How can we help our daughters become happy adults when we too are subject to many of the... read more
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Coronavirus Pandemic
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Childcare
Reconsidering careers and taking chances after Covid-19
The pandemic altered many working mums’ career plans, but it has also brought new opportunities for some.
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Flexible Working Practices
Does how you work affect your experience of Covid?
A workingmums.co.uk survey shows how people worked during the pandemic affected their mental health, attitude towards promotion and to how they want... read more
Recruitment
Returner programmes in a post-pandemic environment
Returner programmes post-pandemic
Now that more returner programmes are coming back onstream after a pause during Covid, workingmums.co.uk looks at how they work and why they matter. ... read more
Work Life Balance
Why employers need to talk about mental health
Benedetta Doro reports on why it is good for both employers and employees to tackle mental health in the workplace on an ongoing basis.... read more
Managing Staff
Advice for employers on easing of restrictions
Kate Palmer from Peninsula UK advises on what employers should do about the easing of restrictions in England after 19th July. read more
Gender Equality
workingmums.co.uk launches Best Practice Report 2021
workingmums.co.uk has launched its Best Practice Report which shares what the winners of its Top Employer Awards have done to address the challenges... read more
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Recruitment
City sees increase in jobs and jobseekers
City job vacancies are growing while the number of jobseekers is twice the rate of vacancies, according to the latest figures from Morgan McKinley. read more
Flexible Working
Doing things differently
Doing things differently can be scary, but it can also make us ask important questions about what 'normal' means, who it works for and who it doesn't. read more
Self Employment
Side hustles: what you need to know
Chartered accountant Oliver Atkinson has some advice on the tax and other implications of running a side hustle alongside your regular job. read more
Flexible Working Practices
‘Half of mums have flexible work request rejected’
A TUC and Mother Pukka survey shows 50% of working mums has had a flexible working request rejected and that many don't even bother asking because... read more
Flexible Working Practices
Flexible working and recruitment after Covid
A Working Families webinar yesterday looked at best practice when it comes to recruitment and flexible working and heard from three employers: Arnold... read more
Employment Rights
What to do if you witness racial inequality at work
Karen Holden from A City Law Firm outlines the actions both employers and employees can take to stamp out racial discrimination at work. read more
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Further Reading
Flexible Working Practices
Leading the way on job shares
Hannah Essex and Claire Walker at the British Chambers of Commerce talk to workingmums.co.uk about working and moving role in a job share partnership... read more
Childcare
What value do we place on children’s futures?
Reports over the last week about catch-up teaching and nurseries appear to put the Government on another collision course with teachers and childcare... read more
Maternity & Parental Leave
Making career breaks the norm
Career breaks, whether parental leave, furlough or whatever, will become more common in the years to come so how can we normalise them more? read more
Employment Rights
Woman wins over £38K in flexible working case
A woman who took her employer, BA CityFlyer, to the employment tribunal for failure to agree to her request for set working days due to childcare... read more
Employment Rights
Job share partner is not up to scratch
My job share is an agency worker on a one-year contract. I have had numerous concerns on her ability to perform the role and have raised the issues... read more
Maternity & Parental Leave
Employers increasing parental leave benefits in battle for talent
More companies are enhancing parental leave pay and offering other return to work support as the battle for talent heats up, a new benchmarking... read more
Flexible Working
Is commuting good for work/life balance?
A study this week won headlines for saying that many people enjoy the commute, which is true, but that doesn't get away from the fact that many don't.... read more
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Fantastic Services is a leader in the UK property-maintenance services with a network of over 530+ franchisees across three continents. The... read more
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