family-friendly policy

A term of art referring to a UK employer’s attitude which is supportive of the family unit coherency, by providing flexible working schedules (family-friendly rostering) and childcare for working parents, and accommodating parental leave when the worker’s children are sick or on holiday.

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He should now offer voters a marriage and family-friendly policy that makes Labour the party for fathers, mothers and children.

COLLAPSE OF FAMILIES IS A DISASTER

Unrotated principal factor analysis was performed using data for three of the study variables excluding the utilisation of the family-friendly policy. The first factor in the analysis extracted 14 per cent variance, compared to 52 per cent extracted by the other two factors.

Family-work conflict and the availability of work-family friendly policy relationships in married employees: the moderating role of work centrality and career consequence

Funny, isn't it, how Cameron chose to expose his young family to ITV just as the Tories are stepping up their family-friendly policy pledges?

KIDDIE CAM

A family-friendly policy is a direct negative predictor of (a) WIF, and (b) FIW.

Work and family domain stressors and support: within- and cross-domain influences on work-family conflict

As we saw earlier, flexible scheduling is the most commonly used family-friendly policy examined here; it may also be the most evenly dispersed among various subpopulations.

Nonetheless, not all contradictory direct and indirect effects of a particular family-friendly policy on job satisfaction need be considered inevitable.

Work-Family Balance and Job Satisfaction: The Impact of Family-Friendly Policies on Attitudes of Federal Government Employees

But most of all, they have to plan working rotas well ahead and build in flexibility to make sure the family-friendly policy is actually achieved for each individual.

Keeping Mums

But concillor Joe Carey added: "The council may regret the decision as Clare is a tourist county and the ban on dogs isn't a family-friendly policy."

EUR1k dog walk fines on beach

It is not a family-friendly policy or a child-friendly policy.

TAX FAKES; Six out of seven families would not benefit from Hague election pledge

GMB leader John Edmonds accused Mr Byers of deserting Labour's family-friendly policy and giving priority to job threats to "male car workers".

M&S COSTS 2,000 JOBS

Cast members with children use the subsidised creche, part of the BBC's family-friendly policy, every day while filming the soap.