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Is there any law where employers have to be flexable with hours for employees with family, or is it just down to luck with your employer?
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If you go for a job with a family already, they dont hav to give it to you if you cant do the hours they want.
"Anyone can ask their employer for flexible work arrangements, but the government has introduced a statutory right in order to encourage applications. You have the statutory right to ask if you:
are an employee (but not an agency worker or in the armed forces)
have a child under six or a disabled child under 18
are responsible for the child as a parent/guardian/foster parent
are applying to care for the child, and
have worked for your employer for 26 weeks continuously before applying "
http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&siteId=en&ssTargetNodeId=633&ssDocName=DG_10028440
I'm applying for 9-5 mon-fri with 1/4 or 1/2 sat type jobs and am kinda desperate to work half days mon and fri but can do all day every sat. One agency I spoke to said "no chance" basically. I guess I'll just have to get what I get and lump it.
Depends on where you work.
However, even if you can, you can't necessarily book every day that you want, because it will depend on business need.
I can find part-time work pretty easily but nothing that progresses me career wise. The work I was doing before uni is still there but the money isn't so much as partner has kinda retired now and she was the driving force behind the business. It's a dilema but I'm workin with it and lookin at my options. I thought I'd be happy to postpone a career to mostly stay at home and mummy, but I'm fucking skint, bored and hugely frustrated- something's gotta give...