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Flexible working features in new Labour manifesto
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
31 July 2008
Plans to extend flexible working and to lower the age for receiving the adult minimum wage to 21 will be included in Labour's next election manifesto, ministers agreed last weekend.
In talks with the major trade unions at the Labour Party's three-day national policy forum, held at Warwick University last weekend, ministers said that they would extend the adult minimum wage, currently £5.52 per hour, to include 21-year-olds. Ministers also agreed to extend unpaid parental leave for parents of children up to 16, in line with the increase in the right to flexible working (News, 22 May 2008). They also pledged to urge employers to...
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