flexible working arrangements: a tool only for women? charles de vries directorate lgbt and gender...
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Flexible working arrangements: a tool only for women?
Charles de Vries
Directorate LGBT and Gender Equality
20 October 2011, Cracow
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Women increased their working time between 1975 and 2005; but what about the men?
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Legislation for greater flexibility of working hours
• Labour legislationreview of Health and safety act on obstacles for working from home
• Working time adjustment actchanging contractual hours according to need ofemployee (within possibilities of employer)
• Work and care actflexible use of parental leave (within possibilities of employer)
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Employers
• Corporate Governance: ‘Modern employership’
• To encourage ‘family-friendly’ HRM policies:- flexible working hours- working from home
• More chances for women to work
• More chances for men to care
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How to encourage employers?
• Legislation can be supportive, but can be dependent on national industrial relations.
• To encourage by showing the business case...- to keep present employees- to be attractive for new employees- more chances to recruit women and men- contented employees perform better- working from home gives higher labourproductivity per hour- allows for flexible use of workforce