... businesses developing work- life balance strategies and the Partnership Fund was created to secure productivity improvements with supporting the development of business projects that solve business problems. (Work- life Balance, Department for Trade and Industry, available from: http://www.dti.gov.uk/work-lifebalance) To support the Governments commitment to create highly productive, modern and successful workplaces through fairness and partnership at work the Employment Act 2002 received royal assent on the 8th July 2002. The Employment Act is a wide ranging package covering work and parents and will take effect from 6th April 2003. The act will introduce a number of changes, these include extended rights to statutory maternity and paternity pay and leave, new rights to adoption leave and pay and a right to ask to work flexibly for working parents with children under six, or disabled children under 18. Employer will have a duty to consider requests seriously. With these changes it will help ...

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