A Wake-Up Call Over Baby Leave ; Labour's Family-Friendly Policies Have Gone Far Enough, Say Business Chiefs

Mail on Sunday › June 21, 2005

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Young women are being passed over for jobs because many bosses fear that they might start a family and disrupt the business. Small firm owners in particular are worried about Government plans to extend paid maternity leave and permit men to take some of their partner's allowance.

A third of male bosses and a quarter of female business owners say that plans to allow new mothers to transfer some of their maternity leave to fathers should be scrapped. And 61 per cent of owners think that the Government has already gone far enough with its family-friendly policies.

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A Wake-Up Call Over Baby Leave ; Labour's Family-Friendly Policies Have Gone Far Enough, Say Business Chiefs

The Sage Heartbeat Survey spoke to 2,500 businesses and found that one in five company heads had no idea how much paternity...

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