Great Britain: flexible work, pension rights and dispute resolution on the government’s programme

In her annual speech delivered on November 6, the Queen announced the labour government's programme for the coming months. Labour law is involved, with three key-measures: extending flexible work, a secured pension system for employees and easier litigations before labour courts. (Ref. 070952)
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Extending flexible labour, flexible hours and telework. In 2003, the government had introduced the right to ask for flexible work for parents of children below 6 years of age and of young handicapped children below the age of 18. This right was then extended to people taking care of dependent adults. Today, 6.25 million parents can take advantage of flexible work measures. If the law was to be extended to parents of children under 9, 1.4 million additional parents could take advantage of it. Th

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