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29/10/2008
Flexible working hours debate divides industry bodies |
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A proposed extension to flexible working hours for parents could be scrapped after ministers have revealed they plan to review regulations surrounding the area.
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) said that a decision to review the situation was "an astonishingly irrelevant response" to the current economic crisis.
Meanwhile, The Federation of Small Businesses, among others, had said that postponing an increase in flexible working hours for parents would provide welcome relief for organisations facing difficult economic conditions.
Dan Taylor, co-founder of Giraffe Sales, said the extension should be "put on the back-burner", netbusiness.co.uk reports.
Mr Taylor continued: "Good employers want to do right by their staff but it comes down to cold, hard facts about profit and loss."
Original proposals stated that from next April parents with children up to the age of 16 would be given the right to work from home.
Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology and health at Lancaster University Management School, said in a report 'Mental Capital and Wellbeing', that the worst thing people can do in a downturn is spend more time in the office. |
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